Word: aspects
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That's the crime, or one of them anyway. Our sleuth is a low-grade Bangkok detective named Sonchai Jitpleecheep. Jitpleecheep is a devout Buddhist, and his firm belief in reincarnation and the transience of the physical world colors every aspect of his investigation. "We do not look on death the way you do, farang," he tells us, using the Thai word for foreigner. "Would you be sorry about a sunset?" Jitpleecheep is also half American and half Thai, which makes him uniquely qualified to understand both the tourists lured by the promise of sex, money, drugs and contraband jade...
Another strong aspect of Riley’s candidacy is his familiarity with Harvard’s roster. He coached seniors Rob Fried, Tyler Kolarik and Dennis Packard, sophomore Peter Hafner and freshman Steve Mandes in USA Hockey tournaments...
...think that every generation should have the opportunity to be able to confront this period of history because it was significant and horrific,” he said. “So there is a remembrance aspect to it. I’m not Jewish, but I don’t think the Holocaust should be forgotten...
...administration was inclined to shut out information that undercut its rationale for war. Former Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland, who serves on the congressional 9/11 commission, for example, charges that the Administration pressed for delaying the publication of the commission's work because its conclusions undercut a key aspect of the case...
...uranium story puffed up so huge? It wouldn't have been a very big deal without the deepening crisis in Iraq. But it also has ballast because it clarifies an aspect of George W. Bush's essential character--specifically, the problem he has with telling the truth. I am not saying Bush is a liar. Lying is witting: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." This is weirder than that. The President seems to believe that wishing will make it so--and he is so stupendously incurious that he rarely makes an effort to find the truth...