Word: likelies
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...However, when he lists some of the good news, he has rather conveniently left out the fact that after three decades of hell, Sri Lanka eradicated the menace of terrorism and separatism from its shores. After all, this historic event should have taken precedence over a merely parochial one like the Red Sox World Series victory, which is of absolutely no interest to the rest of the world. Sri Lanka's victory over the terrorist Tamil Tigers surely is a bright spot not only in this decade but for all history, and ought to receive its proper recognition. Ravi Gunawardana...
...They should see it like a weekend of camping...
...Every single Iranian is valuable. The government is at everyone's service. We like everyone...
VAMPIRES! ZOMBIES! WEREWOLVES! Seriously, like we didn't have enough to be afraid of this year...
This gap in the English language shouldn't come as a surprise; the debate over what to name the first decade of this century has been going on since the middle decades of the last one. The 1900s never got a name beyond vague constructions like the turn of the century. One popular term--the aughts--has proved too archaic (and tricky to spell) to be broadly revived. Wordsmiths tried new coinages starting early: in 1963 a New Yorker writer suggested "Twenty oh-oh" for the far-off year 2000, a "nervous name for what is sure...