Word: patheticism
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Both kids and parents say the lifestyle has its challenges. Eating out--at restaurants, friends' houses and school--can be tricky and sometimes encourages junk-food consumption or even abstaining from eating. Jeff Siegfried, a 13-year-old vegetarian from Bellingham, Wash., says his school-cafeteria offerings are so "pathetic...
In stark contrast, Cornell's offense was pathetic in the first half. Of the Big Red's seven first half drives, five were three-and-outs. When Cornell finally managed a first down on its third drive, it punted three plays later.
Five minutes before the debate ended, the spinners descended. Ed Rendell, Condi Rice, Karen Hughes, Andrew Cuomo worked the room full of reporters, cruising for interviews, soliciting interest, begging, essentially, for a chance to sell their guy. It was kind of pathetic.
So there was all this, and I haven't even told you about the track meet. What an incredible track meet. It started, as I mentioned in my last letter, with Marion Jones and Maurice Greene winning the 100-meter sprints. The next big result, as you might have heard...
These Olympics, like those that preceded them, are conducted in the spirit of fair play and sportsmanship--at least until the competition starts. Everything was a grudge match in the cold war days, when, for the U.S., winning against the Russians and their vassals was a patriotic duty. Now it...