Word: fatalism
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...Manny, but Manny would only block with me if we also blocked with Dana. We put Dana on hold because we were waiting for Tasha to block with us. Some guys on the basketball team also wanted to block with us, so we had to decide. We made the fatal mistake of telling Dana she was on ‘The Waiting List,’ after which she refused to speak to us ever again. Then Tasha and her friends were pissed, so they refused to block with us. And the basketball players? They blocked with other basketball players...
...embassy in Tehran again, with lines of people around the block, trying to get green cards. There is a theory that American cultural and economic power is so insidiously attractive that opening up to the U.S. would be the death of these regimes. I've heard it called the Fatal...
...arguments against Fatal Huggery are obvious. Why encourage and legitimize evildoers? Why allow Kim Jong Il - the Michael Jackson of world leaders - to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel...
...announced himself as the most exuberantly idealistic foreign policy President since Woodrow Wilson. Bush's vision of a sudden flowering of post-Saddam Middle Eastern democracy has no historical precedent. If issued from the mouth of, say, Ted Kennedy, it would have been denounced by conservatives as fantasy. Is Fatal Hug diplomacy any more improbable than what the President has already proposed...
...claimed to produce a "smoking gun" in their lawsuit against the company's American arm over the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay (also known as Baycol). Bayer voluntarily withdrew the drug from the market in August 2001, when it was linked to rhabdomyolysis, a muscle-destroying condition that can be fatal. But attorneys last week produced excerpts from correspondence between executives at Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline from 1997, which warned that "simple and safe no longer appears to be a viable promotional platform" for the drug. In 1999, U.S. regulators warned that Bayer's marketing of the drug, which was later revised...