Word: absently
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...takes an absent (or very subtle) collective mind to deliver an electoral verdict like the German one. At the polls on Sept. 18, the people's message was that nobody wins. It is tempting to compare Germany '05 with the U.S. presidential election in Florida five years ago, but wrong. In Florida, after much counting and recounting, somebody won?George W. Bush. Yet in Germany, Gerhard Schr?der, the Social Democrat, was trounced?and so was Angela Merkel, his Christian-Democratic challenger. The Chancellor and his junior partner, the Greens, lost their majority, but Frau Merkel and her allies, the Free...
Another name absent from the list of signatories was Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been an active opponent to the Solomon Amendment since he urged the University to file its own lawsuit against the government last October...
...Pakistan's Progress While Afghanistan and Vietnam were covered in your special issue "The Making of Modern Asia" [Aug. 15-22], Pakistan was conspicuously absent. Surely Pakistan is of as much interest as some of the other countries discussed. Noman Sattar Islamabad...
...first time ever, a major U.S. city was simply taken offline, closed down. Food and water and power and phones were gone; authority was all but absent. Most of the people left to cope were least equipped: the ones whose Social Security checks were just about due, or those who made for the Greyhound station only to find it already closed, or those confined to bed or who used a wheelchair. "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," declared Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown in a moment of hideous accidental honesty. Rescue workers could...
...pinhole, lens, light-sensitive surface-in order to work? It's no accident, says Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, that the eye resembles a camera, which everybody instantly recognizes as a product someone designed. "If it looks, walks and quacks like a duck," Behe writes, "then absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrent to conclude it's a duck...