Word: mortals
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...lasted for the following 12 months. The President didn't see it coming. And who could blame him? For more than three years after 9/11, the American public had given the Administration, and indeed many authority figures, the benefit of the doubt. We were at war, even in mortal danger. Trust was essential. The bigwigs kept assuring us they knew what they were doing. And so most of us went along...
...office. Eighty-three of the LDP winners, meanwhile, are first-time Diet members, now routinely referred to in the Japanese press as "Koizumi's Kids." While it would be an overstatement to say the LDP is now Koizumi's machine, its famously fractious factions have been dealt a mortal blow, and it is more aligned behind a single, strong leader than ever before. "We destroyed the old LDP," said a beaming Koizumi as the returns came in, "and the LDP became like a new party...
...many more breaks can we make,” Murphy said. “Our kids found a way to get it done.”After last year’s perfect season, there was nowhere to go but down. The team’s very mortal imperfections have made for some spicy football and meant that last year’s recovery from a massive deficit against Brown has not remained a rarity. “It wasn’t pretty, but we got it done,” captain Erik Grimm said.—Staff...
...History of Warfare by John Keegan. Casting a cold eye over 4,000 years of mortal combat convinces this British historian that making war is basically a bad habit. Unromantic about the profession of arms but nevertheless sympathetic to the warrior class, Keegan conveys the grim details of warmaking operations with a stoic clarity that blurs all flags and levels all battlefields...
Such incidents are more than merely unfortunate for those involved. They produce a chilling effect on speech and teaching for everyone else. Political profiling is the mortal enemy of academic freedom...