Word: fitfulness
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...very, very rough pictures of songs. Tunes, bits and pieces of things that I think of, that kind of thing. I'll have hundreds of songs on my tapes and then I take 20 or 30 of those into the big studio to record. Of those, the songs that fit together the best are the one that make it on the record. Basically I look for songs that I can thread together in some...
...deadly arrogance. With the cities emptied and the population under Khmer Rouge control, Pol Pot's means of implementation was to begin exterminating anyone who didn't fit this new ideal. He declared that he was turning Cambodia - now renamed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea - back to "Year Zero," and intellectuals, businessmen, Buddhists and foreigners were all purged. "What is rotten must be removed," read a popular Khmer Rouge slogan at the time, and remove they did, often by execution but sometimes simply by working people to death in the fields...
...just realized, as these issues started to come at us," Gregg said, "that it really wasn't a good fit, and that I wouldn't be comfortable doing this, and that it wouldn't be fair to [Obama] to be part of a team and not be able to be 100% on the team." With those words, Gregg offered what may be the most blunt statement of the challenge Obama faces in moving beyond the partisan and ideological divisions that have long defined national politics. Gregg declined to specify the issues or events that made him reconsider...
...appears that the only Guantanamo detainees that could eventually end up in Europe are those who have not been charged with a crime, but who risk persecution if returned to their country of origin. Some 60 of the 260 current prisoners on the US military base in southeastern Cuba fit that description...
...have to make some judgments, right or wrong. And so I think we've done the right thing in saying sometimes, for whatever reason it is, whether it's faith or psychopathology or whatever, people who have responsibility for minor children don't make right decisions, are not fit to make right decisions --I don't care why--and the state has an interest in preserving that life...