Word: mortems
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wanted their votes to add up to a “mandate,” and it looks like that’s the way the nation is taking them. But there’s another group of voters out there that feels none of the intoxication of post-mortem election analysis. Tuesday night brought for them a numbness that came on like a novacaine injection all at once at about 8:15 p.m., and lingers still. For these voters—many former supporters of Edward Kennedy, or backers of John Anderson, or supporters of smaller third parties...
It’s there that the music gets all Aphex Twin on us, while Missy throws in a titillating rap about how her homeboy was sexually inadequate (even pre-mortem) that makes Toni look like Celine Dion. Oh, wait, Toni Braxton actually is kind of like the Celine Dion of R&B. Wait, didn’t Celine Dion also have a video about her boyfriend dying in a car accident? For that matter, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together...
...there were plenty exploding in Iraq even as she spoke. The uprising among both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis that has shaken Coalition forces there and thrown U.S. transition plans into crisis may be a more immediate concern on the minds of the American electorate than the increasingly partisan post-mortem over 9/11...
...killer colleen); here, Julie Kohler (pronounced ?col?re,? the French word for anger). As Julie, Jeanne Moreau shows no emotion as she executes these men (with a push, a poison, suffocation, an arrow, a knife). The love that spurs her on is not so much post-coital as post-mortem. ?I?m already dead,? she says. ?I died the day he did. When I?m done I?ll join...
...first hurdle because Abbas refused to disarm the militants. From a Palestinian point of view, it failed because Israel refused to answer the "hudna" with the quid-pro-quo of prisoner releases and withdrawals. But if the blood continues to flow in the coming weeks, the post-mortem on the cease-fire will become academic. And the discussion will shift to the question of what other ideas the Bush administration has for stopping the carnage that the Israelis and Palestinians, separately and together, appear unable to halt...