Word: dimness
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...Bush looked shocked. He shrugged his shoulders, smiled and then waved as if going on a voyage. "You thought we were bad," joked Presidential adviser Karen Hughes of the One China Question Policy. In a private lunch of Shark's fin, fried lobster and Dim Sum at tables with 1,000 roses each, Jiang was not shy about expressing his contempt for the press. It was an area of common ground with his guest. "I like the way China did it when it comes to press conferences," Bush joked later...
...deploy--and where access to the closed world of the Taliban begins. Bin Laden's foot soldiers regularly slip through the walled enclaves and jostling bazaars to recruit jihadis or send out instructions. Taliban fighters float through to spy and resupply. Every Afghan faction has its representative in some dim house. Intelligence agents linger in the lobby of the Pearl Continental Hotel, where the phones are tapped and drivers let fall scraps of information. Places like this are where the operatives who can pin a real-time target on bin Laden must be recruited or bought or blackmailed...
...occupy it. An opium pipe, a negligent smoker of that pipe, and the chaise lounge upon which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus is dim: the space is uninviting and, on top of that, there's no room among the clutter anyway...
...Harvard uniform last weekend. In fact, he should have graduated last spring. He had many opportunities to stop playing football and was nearly forced to stop on a few occasions. But he persevered. He only wanted to compete and to play, and although his prospects were dim, he only worked harder...
...Enormous human evil should promote faith in G-d rather than dim it. There are only three options: the world is meaningless, human beings create meaning or G-d provides meaning. No one truly believes that the world is meaningless. The human capacity for unmitigated evil makes us implausible creators of meaning. All that is left...