Word: doomfulness
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...committing themselves to old-fashioned, long-forgotten things—like, say, personality and good songwriting—will inspire record labels to demand higher artistic standards in their other acts. And lest we forget, 2004 also had lots of great rap albums. Madvillain, the brainchild of emcee MF Doom and producer Madlib, broke out of the underground with a relentlessly unique Lo-Fi collaboration. The absurdly gifted young producer Kanye West picked up the microphone and silenced his doubters, proving himself a witty and charming new voice. Eminem returned from a two-year break with—well?...
...Prize was created to fuel a competition in space liners, just as its predecessor inspired the early airlines. Imaginations ran wild. The Canadian Da Vinci Project wanted to launch its rocket from 80,000 ft. after lifting it there with a reusable helium balloon. John Carmack, creator of the Doom video games, intended to blast his wife into suborbital space with a new kind of engine that runs on alcohol. (Carmack's prototype crashed; Da Vinci's effort was hampered by missing parts...
...would last if a challenge emerged later from a more ruthless opponent. The P.L.O. chiefs fear that without Arafat, the armed gangs ruling Palestinian towns wouldn't have even the modest restraining influence "the old man," as they call him, has had over them. The resulting civil unrest could doom Palestinian aspirations for statehood. "We have to avoid anarchy, because we know the alternative is that the Israelis will come in and take over," a senior Fatah official told TIME...
Such a situation is especially precarious since one more loss for the Crimson would almost certainly doom hopes for its first Ivy championship since...
...marriage Kerry and Edwards like to brag that they have the same position on the issue as Bush--they oppose it. But unlike Bush, they think states should be free to define marriage. Hence a Kerry victory would probably doom the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. The amendment was already a long shot. It failed a vote in the Republican-led House of Representatives last month, and the TIME poll found that 54% of voters oppose the amendment, up from 46% just last summer...