Word: patheticism
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Eight months after self-rule began, it is clear that the Palestinian authorities have been unwilling to make an effort to stop Hamas. In the face of violence against Israelis, Arafat's response has been at best pathetic, at worst criminal.
The tacked-on ending seems like an easy way out of the spiral of commotion that the events build up to. It's as if Shue finally agreed to consent and said, "Enough!" But the abrupt change reads more like an easy way out of a fine mess. As the...
The election commission, recognizing this problem, even extended the application deadline for a full day. The pathetic result: 99 candidates instead of 91.
"We're pathetic in society," D. Dayneen Preston, an executive manager at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, said in perhaps the evening's most critical comments. "We are some lazy people."
Also, of course, we've gotten a bunch of letters. As I promised last time, these letters will often form the basis of these columns, so keep them coming. Throwing out those few pathetic letters that had the hubris to take issue with my summer picks and pans in the...