Word: mercilessness
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...only health care system in the world based entirely on private profit), and yet their unwillingness to label anyone as intrinsically less worthy and their commitment to "being nice" indicate a sense of compassion. Some might see a contradiction, but I think there's a logic behind it. Merciless selection seems less objectionable if we insist that no one is intrinsically unfit. The losers are victims of circumstance, who, in principle at least, can be helped to succeed...
...Interrupting Putnam on his roll, the computerized stick figure cuts in with a merciless dramatization of a gutter ball. "I bowled a one", my fellow FMer says sheepishly as he sits back down in his plastic chair...
...second half is crushing, merciless. Webster scores again and again, Finally, finally, Beth's swain puts his arm around her. But time has been ticking down. Just as he does it, defensive back Carl Whittaker intercepts and runs from his own 10 all the way down the field and scores as the clock runs out. Beth leaps up and screams, and the boy's arm slides off--for now. Webster wins 61-14. The crowd whoops, the cheerleaders kick, parents, including Bobby's, run out onto the field to grab their smelly kids and hug them...
...shake our heads, our faces almost embarrassed in the presence of this violent blank: What is the text trying to teach us? This merciless--almost preposterous--pounding, these ingenious yet repetitive variations on the theme: they mean something, don't they? They've got to. Some cruelly overwritten sermon on Old Joe's hubris? There must be a secret beneath the surface, down there, full-fathom five, beneath the choppers and clatter of media...
...after directing kids to safety. And we're supposed to think gun buyers can't endure a little red tape, a little delayed gratification in making their purchase? Without guns, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were menacing misfits in trench coats feasting on Internet swill. With guns, they became merciless mass murderers. We're hungry for a politician who can stand up to the gun lobby and convince it that burying Isaiah Shoels last Thursday in the graduation gown he would have worn to his commencement this month is unacceptable in a civilized society...