Word: painful
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...Alas, the cries of pain and anger may just embolden Mugabe further. The octogenarian ruler told a state-run newspaper soon after his parliamentary appearance that South African?brokered talks had broken down and his party would again form the government, not the MDC, which he has sworn will never take power. Mugabe has long claimed to rule in the name of the people. (Though he allowed, after the opposition's victory, that the people sometimes make "a mistake.") It seems the former school teacher intends to correct such errors for a while longer...
When the media or a candidate's political allies--or sometimes even the candidate--suggest that a child's death or half a decade as a prisoner of war will make the candidate better able to feel the pain of American voters, this is really an insult to the candidate and to whatever inner strength got him or her through the challenges he or she faced...
Most American voters have never suffered this kind of pain, which is really outside the realm of politics in any event. Or it should...
...your article "Pain Amid Plenty," you write that this year the U.S. will give more than $800 million to Ethiopia: $460 million for food, $350 million for HIV/AIDS treatment and $7 million for agricultural development [Aug. 18]. To put that amount of money in perspective, let's take a look at what we are currently spending on the war in Iraq: $100 billion a year, or $8 billion a month, which is $275 million a day. So we spend the equivalent of our entire foreign aid to Ethiopia for one year in less than three days in Iraq. What does...
Many Americans with the disorder suffer only a few symptoms, perhaps occasional bloating in the lower abdomen or constipation. But up to 35% of people with diverticulosis will develop the more serious condition, diverticulitis, which results from inflammation of the diverticula, and causes severe pain, nausea, cramping, chills and fever, requiring invasive medical treatment such as surgery...