Word: reckoner
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...Against that dreary background of official hubris, myopia and duplicity, it seems odd that former Senator Bob Kerrey is hitting newspaper headlines and television screens because of the revelation that his team of Navy SEALs killed innocent women and children while on a mission in the Mekong Delta. I reckon that thousands of grunts went through the same experience. But if what they did was appalling, it was comprehensible. In a way, they were victims of the machine that vaulted them into a hot, humid, shadowy, alien environment in which friend and foe were a blur, and all a potential...
PLETTENBERG BAY, South Africa - New democracies tend to be a little oversensitive. Take South Africa. A conservative journalist here named Max du Preez recently referred to Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, as a "womanizer." I'm not going to reckon with the truth or falsehood of the accusation, but by the ANC's reaction, you'd think Mbeki had been called a murderer, a cheat, a fraud, a deviant and a liar - all epithets that Bill Clinton, and probably every American president, routinely gets called...
...Celera has obviously been a very important force to reckon with in the past few years," Collins said. He stressed that the perceived rivalry was not as intense as is has been portrayed...
...Celera has obviously been a very important force to reckon with in the past few years," Collins said. He stressed that the perceived rivalry was not as intense as is has been portrayed...
...save percentage, courtesy of senior netminder Scott Clemmenson, and you've got yourself a force to reckon with...