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...Nonetheless, the Shiite majority is going to play an important part in Iraqi politics, and the clergy is going to play an important part in Shiite politics. The early signs do not bode well for a lengthy American involvement in Iraq...
...historic, but they will require a great deal of work. The openings to North Korea and Iran will require subtle, patient diplomacy, which has not been this Administration's strength. The reconstruction of Iraq will require great skill and sensitivity as well, and events on the ground do not bode well. Many Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude - which seemed equal parts real and sham - dissolved into griping within days. One wonders how they will receive their newly designated American saviors, Bechtel and a division...
...athletes were injured or not feeling well coming into this meet,” Li said. “But people pulled through and scored points for us. Although we didn’t win, we pulled a lot of performances that bode well for the future...
Harvey didn’t score in the final 4:58 of the game. It doesn’t bode well for your chances of winning a close game when your go-to scorer gets shut out in the closing minutes...
...eradication of smallpox was one of humanity's great success stories. After thousands of years of suffering at the hands of the virus, the human race gathered all its wit and cunning and conquered the scourge, eradicating it forever. Well, forever lasted less than 25 years. It does not bode well for the future of our species that it took but a blink of the eye for one of history's worst killers to make a comeback--not on its own, mind you, but brought back by humans to kill again...