Word: fallen
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Welcome to Hell. Or, to be more precise, the Hell for Fallen Incumbents. This is where those candidates are sent by their constituents, virtual St. Peters at the gates of Heaven, when they are not readmitted to that Eternal Paradise, known as the U.S. Congress...
...admit that I have also fallen into that trap a couple of times--a trap because there is a fundamental problem with the question...
...Bell Curve is not limited to Chapter 13, and I do indeed agree with many of its conclusions and implications, including those on the merits of affirmative action. Braunstein, however, implies that I have fallen for the controversial claim about blacks' native intelligence--and this claim is simply untrue. Whitney D. Pidot...
...filled the streets, chanting anti-Arafat slogans and menacing the authorities. One mob descended on Arafat's military headquarters and tried to pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals denounced Arafat and his followers as stooges for Israel and vowed revenge. During a funeral procession for one of the fallen, a mourner took up an increasingly popular chant, "O Arafat, O Arafat, the Jihad killed Sadat," a reference to the Egyptian leader assassinated by fundamentalists...
...Coetzee's darkly convincing narration, Dostoyevsky hears that his 21- year-old stepson Pavel Isaev, who has fallen in with nihilists in Petersburg, has been murdered, perhaps by the police or by his comrades. The writer travels to Petersburg, finds the rooming house where Pavel had lived and -- guilt-haunted because he did not get along well with this difficult son of his dead first wife -- moodily retraces the young man's last months. He tries to retrieve Pavel's papers from the police and is subjected to repeated, insinuating interrogations. He encounters a deadly, contemptuous young nihilist named Nechaev...