Word: fallen
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...With the years, the shallow explanations for Reagan's success - charm, acting, oratory - have fallen away. What remains is Reagan's largeness and deeply enduring significance. Let Edward Kennedy, the dean of Democratic liberalism, render the verdict: "It would be foolish to deny that his success was fundamentally rooted in a command of public ideas ... Whether we agreed with him or not, Ronald Reagan was a successful candidate and an effective President above all else because he stood for a set of ideas. He stated them in 1980 - and it turned out that he meant them - and he wrote most...
...Gibbs chose the right word to describe the effect of the prison-abuse scandal: humiliation. Some photo images find the retina of the heart and never go away: the fallen G.I.s on Omaha Beach on D-day, the napalmed girl in Vietnam and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. And now the photos of depraved acts perpetrated against Iraqis by Americans at Abu Ghraib have soiled and overwhelmed the sensibilities of good people everywhere. Rich Houseknecht Greensboro...
...sand, it made a "sip sip" sound like someone sucking on their teeth. Ahead of me in the distance, I could see survivors of the landing already using the base of the bluffs as shelter. Due to my near drowning and exhaustion, I had fallen behind the advance. To this day, I don't know why I didn't dump the flamethrower and run like hell for shelter. But I didn...
...Will Get Yukos? What happens when a company can't pay its bills but is legally barred from selling its parts? Ask fallen oil giant Yukos, the erstwhile flagship of Russia 's economy. "We can expect bankruptcy before the end of 2004," Yuri Beilin, vice chairman of Yukos' board, announced last week, after a Moscow court upheld a Tax Ministry demand that Yukos must pay $3.5 billion in alleged back taxes for 2000. Another court upheld a previous ruling that froze Yukos' Swiss bank accounts worth $5 billion...
...leaving the company with only $800 million, while former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky remains in jail on fraud charges widely thought to have a political motive. Not surprisingly, Yukos stock had fallen 10.7% by the end of the week. Says Mikhail Krutikhin, an analyst with RusEnergy: "My clients now have just a single question left. Who gets Yukos, once it bankrupts?" Apparently there is an answer. "We know that the successor has been picked - we still don't know exactly [who it is]," says a senior Russian Cabinet official. "The person does not matter, though. It's the type that does...