Word: existance
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...pariah states. The U.N. sanctions that had wedged the Iraqis between an evil regime and an uncaring world had been in place for eight years. She fixed her strong, brown eyes on me and gave me the facts: Iraqi children were dying by the thousands; Iraq was ceasing to exist as a unified nation-state; its people were experiencing an African-scale catastrophe of malnutrition. She knew the situation on the ground and cared passionately about the suffering around...
...realist in me knows that miscounted votes in Clyde do not presage the end of America. They just presage the end of the America I invented during Ohio summers in my childhood, a country where silos and schoolhouses and soybeans stand for an inherent decency that does not exist, that may never have existed...
Viewers adored him. He put a face on an idea. I'm sure Arab Americans would have liked him to be less of a caricature, but he didn't exist on any other show. We felt we might have a longer time to develop his character, but the network yanked...
...this where Arafat had always wanted to be--at war with Israel? Had his acceptance of Israel's right to exist, expressed implicitly in 1988 and explicitly as part of the Oslo accords in 1993, been a trick? That has become the prevalent belief among Israelis. Arafat encouraged that view by at times likening the Oslo agreements to a tactical truce the Prophet Muhammad negotiated with his enemies only so that he could later conquer them. Arafat's Israeli critics believe he never gave up on the Palestine Liberation Organization's "phased plan" of taking lands bit by bit from...
...Ferraris quit. "I was flabbergasted," he says. A few weeks later, on Dec. 19, 2003, the biggest corporate scam in European history was exposed when Parmalat confirmed that an account it had claimed to have at Bank of America with €3.95 billion in cash simply did not exist. That was merely the first revelation in the scandal that turned Parmalat into Europe's Enron, a morass of fraud and financial failure made all the more dramatic by the fact that the company was Italy's eighth largest and had established itself as a global consumer brand. In the past...