Word: namelessness
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...flimsier “facts” than “World Trade Center.” Somehow, a quasi-fictional portrayal of the hijackings seems less offensive than one offering constant, visceral detail.Greengrass’ characters, while based on the actual passengers of United 93, are nearly nameless. The spirit with which they fight to escape their fate suggests the way other 9/11 victims might have resisted, given the chance, thereby lending a grander sense of purpose to Greengrass’ film. On the other side of the spectrum is Ken Kalfus’ new novel...
...monuments, but our eyes kept returning to the long arcs in the grass. These were rows of marble blocks, each carved with a number. “84,” “361,” “920”: the battle’s nameless dead. This, I kept thinking, is the closest I will get to war this summer. And those beautiful words kept echoing in my head. “The government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” There...
...reduced costs, combination drug therapy could potentially reach up to two to three times as many people as before. Yet 39 American pharmaceutical companies came out in ardent opposition to sharing their secret recipes. They claimed intellectual property was violated. But what about Hassan? Or his brother? And the nameless thousands?Even though the Food and Drug Administration eventually caved, these drugs are still conspicuously absent from the African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual...
...Republicans. In a TIME poll conducted last week, Bush's job approval rating was mired at 39%; 3 in 5 Americans said the country is headed in the wrong direction, and when those surveyed were given the choice between a generic Republican and a generic Democrat for Congress, the nameless Democrat won, 50% to 41%. The signs suggest an anti-Republican wave is building, says nonpartisan electoral handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, whose Rothenberg Political Report is closely followed in Washington. "The only question is how high, how big, how much force it will have. I think it will be considerable...
...that she had been personally targeted by Wisse’s remarks because she had sponsored the no-confidence motion. “I felt it was important for me to put a personal face on this to make clear that [Wisse] was not just addressing a group of nameless people,” Ryan said. “There was a very real person whose name was on the motion...