Word: disasterous
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Edward Kennedy died at Chappaquiddick, along with Mary Jo Kopechne. It's hard to understand how a major figure like Ted could emerge from such a personal disaster, give such a thoroughly unconvincing explanation, and yet continue to pitch for high office. In the U.K. he'd have been finished...
I mention this disaster not to embarrass the fun czar but rather to highlight the overarching problem with the czarist regime that has been at the heart of every social programming nightmare for the past five years: First-year Harvard graduates are generally ill-equipped to manage the minutiae surrounding...
Swine flu has claimed its first casualty at Stanford: Full Moon on the Quad, an illustrious tradition dating back to the late 19th century, where seniors make out with freshmen under the first full moon of the year. University administrators have canceled the event for this year, citing that it...
But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry...
If Detroit had been savaged by a hurricane and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it. If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night. Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it - if natural...