Word: patheticism
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Your reporting on the midterm elections was perhaps an unwitting testament to how pathetic the U.S. political system has become. What a waste of resources! If our political parties, elected officials and their various minions would devote their time, energy and money to solving the country's problems instead of...
In any other industrialized nation, to offer up Nakamura as a typical retailer, as a representative of anything other than a holdover from a bygone era, would be unfair. In other advanced countries, mom-and-pop shops are niche operators, accounting, for example, for only 19% of retail employment in...
Re "Tools Of War" [IRAQ, Oct. 21]: America's exuberance about the sophistication and infallibility of its weapons is a pathetic display of ignorance. After all, Iraq has been stigmatized, embargoed and banished to the economic doldrums for the past 10 years, so why does the U.S. need such weaponry...
My annual winter slump is about to arrive. It is timed perfectly to correlate with the due date of my first thesis chapter, the day my heater quits and the day that Harvard turns a pathetic color gray for six weeks with no snow. So instead of doing my school...
But the structure remained intact—just significantly bent—and the Quaker faithful eventually headed home, back to the dorms where they could further bask in their drunken glee and eventually sober up and realize they still go to school in Philadelphia. And the goalpost remained at...