Word: abyss
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...enormous exercise in time management. Watching my kids try to juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex--a black hole of chatter--and for many kids it's hard to find an exit. Under its influence, 90 minutes of homework ends up taking four to five hours, says Dr. Alan Goodwin, principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda...
...rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank was about as far as anyone wanted to venture into the dark.' Night, finally published in the U.S. in 1960, drew them far deeper, into an abyss that was appalling to contemplate and impossible to ignore. It was as if a thousand tongues had suddenly become unstuck ... It was Wiesel who brought the term Holocaust out of scholarly usage into common parlance...
...Hegel, and feeling the inevitable pressure not to fall behind, I remain in the library in agony. Sadly, I achieve nothing. I read, skim, outline, and peruse, but in the end, the facts never stick. In a matter of minutes, they are regurgitated from my brain into that dark abyss of intellectual nothingness. I never used to have intellectual bulimia. I—like my other 1,600 classmates—was the cream of the high school crop, one of the nine percent of 22,000 applicants selected by Harvard last year. I never used to stare at myself...
...President wasn't the only one to have an accountability moment in 2005. The United Nations was finally compelled to concede that the oil-for-food program for Saddam's Iraq had turned into a massive scam. The French looked into the abyss of their tendency to segregate the races. Arnold Schwarzenegger discovered that his charms had limits. Harriet Miers was stunned to find that being the President's favorite lawyer and running the Texas lottery were not actually qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. The New York Times's Judith Miller learned that you cannot be both...
...precisely the President’s problem. Rather than maintain his myopic façade of absolute optimism, he should have given this speech months ago, if not over a year ago. That he did not deliver it until now, as he teeters on the brink of a political abyss, demonstrates how truly feeble his leadership has been. The President did not deliver an Oval Office address after the first historic Iraqi general election. Nor, for that matter, did the President deliver an Oval Office address following the symbolically significant two-thousandth American casualty in Iraq. When his opponents seized...