Word: fathoms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...should give him a little breathing space. (Asked during his weekly grilling by MPs what he'd like for Christmas, Brown sighed: "I might have one day off.") He doesn't have to hold elections until 2010. But by then, he may be forced to fathom another observation from Robert Louis Stevenson: "Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences...
Until recently, Venezuela's opposition was so weak and fragmented it seemed unable to even fathom an electoral victory. But, in the early morning hours on Monday, it sealed a surprising triumph over the constitutional reform proposal of a President who, in nine years, had never lost an election. Scrambling to explain this aberration in a land where Hugo Chavez dominates the political landscape, many political observers point to the thousands of university students, who, dormant until this year, clogged the streets to protest the reform in the weeks leading up to the vote. Raul Baduel, the former defense minister...
...while another drug keeps the condemned paralyzed, thus giving the illusion of serenity, underscored with massive unseen pain. The drugs are known to take anywhere between seven minutes to two hours to be effective, and finding a suitable vein is often a long, torturous ordeal. It is stupefying to fathom that lethal injection, which has been used for almost 25 years, is only now being seen as cruel and unusual punishment. This makes lethal injection more insidious. By disguising the true horror of execution with medicine, lethal injection anesthetizes society to what amounts to murder by the state. We hope...
...wonder, living with the virus? If so, why would he or she want to broadcast this painful truth to complete strangers? If not, what could possibly be the impetus to draw attention in such a way? Does he or she purport to understand experiences that he or she cannot fathom living...
...politics-minded friends, who gleefully spend their summers in the Washington D.C. swampland don’t quite understand my fascination with Hollywood. I’m accustomed to the general disinterest my passion provokes. But even if many such Institute of Politics (IOP) nuts can’t fathom a world in which most people don’t know who Alberto Gonzales is and why he resigned, the sad fact is that this is the world we live in. On the very day Gonzales resigned, most news stations focused on the dogfighting antics of Michael Vick...