Word: dooms
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...Boyce's account of the Aborigines' doom in an appendix deserves a separate book. His chief focus remains a vivid recreation of the lives of the convicts who adapted so creatively to the Australian landscape. Though they, and not the free settlers who arrived later, were the founders of Tasmania, history has depicted them as merely savage. Yet their success as "bush entrepreneurs," living on and using the land they were let loose upon, was unmatched in the Australian colonies. Yes, they did harm - introducing pests, wiping out species - but they were also changed by the land, and many loved...
...That hints at a damaging internecine fight ahead, one that could doom the party's hopes of holding on to the White House. But Democrats can't count on a conservative crackup. It may be tempting to view the Republican race as a battle for the party's conservative identity, pitting antiabortion vs. antiterrorism vs. antitax, Huckabee the evangelical pastor vs. McCain the war hero vs. Romney the venture capitalist. But Super Tuesday's exit polls suggest that McCain did best among Republicans who care most about the economy, while Romney scored best on immigration. Many conservative leaders will never...
...name Kurt Cobain, another lower-middle-class kid for whom being messed up was a source of creativity and, eventually, the killer of it too. Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers. No matter how true her music feels, it's hard to tell the difference between pain and performance and impossible to guess how approval reinforces her self-perception...
...organizer of the county-level conventions, said it was worth it: "There was a solid consensus by everybody that the price of playing in the nomination process was worth the loss of the delegates." Abiding by Republican National Committee rules and holding the county conventions later, Sansonetti said, would "doom the Wyoming Republican Party to being a non-player, with no visits, no phone calls, no direct mail, by the national candidates...
...Jayne Wisener) and her beau Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower, who looks, somewhat disconcertingly, like Scarlett Johansson, and sings with a robust tenderness). Do they escape the carnage? We won't say; and at the end, the film doesn't show, so intent is Burton on following Sweeney to his doom...