Word: fatalism
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...President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue an impertinent and fatal Middle East adventure...
CONVICTED. DANIEL PELOSI, 41, an electrician; of the 2001 fatal beating of multimillionaire Wall Street banker Theodore Ammon in his East Hampton, N.Y., home; in Riverhead, N.Y. Against his lawyers' advice, the brash Pelosi, who had been romantically involved with Ammon's estranged wife, took the stand in his defense, testifying that he enjoyed zapping co-workers with a stun gun and would like to have used the gun on the lead prosecutor. He faces 25 years to life in prison...
This movie has enough wirework and furious swordplay to raise an audience's collective gasp of amazement. Knives, swords and spears move like fatal Frisbees, careering toward their targets with the help of some supple computer trickery. The narrative is no less devious: every loyalty, emotional and political, must be questioned, tested, fought...
...they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure, a week after President George W. Bush had announced his selection, that a nanny he had once employed may have been an illegal immigrant, and that he had not paid some taxes on her salary, became the fatal flaw for the man whose prospective job would include enforcing immigration laws. "The good news is he found it, he came forward and he cut off a bitter conflict that would have cost the President capital," Giuliani says. "The bad news is that it could have been caught earlier...
...there are as many dangers for Barghouti as for Abbas if the prisoner stays in the race. If he loses, his candidacy may nonetheless have delivered the political equivalent of a fatal wound to Abbas, at the same time as burning his own prospects for fulfilling his "Palestinian Mandela" ambitions. If Barghouti stayed in the race with the backing of the Fatah militants - making it an election fought over the fundamental strategic direction to be adopted by the Palestinians - and was then decisively defeated, Abbas would be free to pursue all manner of hitherto unpopular compromises with Israel. But that...