Word: nostradamusã
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...still-circulating “Nostradamus?? quatrain attests, vague warnings are seductive. They create a feeling of our being in control of an otherwise uncontrolled and uncontrollable situation: We feel that we know what’s going to happen. But the future can’t be predicted—not by a sixteenth-century mystic, not by someone writing in the style of a sixteenth-century mystic, and not by the Bush administration. To imagine that it can is to succumb to the worst sort of superstition...
...Osama bin Laden” and “Nostradamus?? have pushed “sex” out of the top ten of Alta Vista search terms for the first time ever. People have different priorities in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, which have shocked the country...
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