Word: fallen
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...fallen to Cheney to merge the messages, to declare that there is "a new normal" now--one that makes room for courage and fear, joy and loss; one in which we attend birthday parties and funerals on the same day. Unlike Bush, Cheney has been warning Americans that life is different now and is probably going to stay that way for the rest of our lives. The question, of course, is how different, and Bush will soon have to begin helping us chart the dimensions of the new normal. How he does it will be a measure...
...Afghans still don't understand what this war is really about. They can't comprehend the enormity of what happened on Sept 11, nor why our wrath has fallen on them. Remember: the Talibans don't believe in TV or newspapers. Afghans haven't seen those horrifying images of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An aid worker friend was in Afghanistan at the time, trying to explain the dimensions of the calamity to Afghans. "They couldn't understand what the fuss was about. They thought the World Trade Center was a few shops at a caravan crossing...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict has fallen into an easily discernible pattern: a Palestinian terrorist kills Israelis. Israel assassinates suspected terrorist leaders or invades Palestinian towns to arrest those believed to be responsible, often killing non-terrorists in the process. Then another act of terrorism is launched against Israel in retaliation for the arrests and deaths, and the vicious circle continues...
...Having fallen to fourth in the Ivy League standings, Harvard hopes to regroup against No. 25 Hartford on Wednesday...
...which makes nature the object of wondrous contemplation, and the famous “Painting to Hammer a Nail” (1966), a white plaster-board which is only completed once the viewer has pounded in nails using an attached hammer. Ono is said to have fallen in love with Lennon when, at a 1966 exhibition, he asked her permission to add a nail to the work. She told him that a nail cost five shillings, to which Lennon responded by asking if he could hammer an imaginary nail into the surface...