Word: regretful
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...like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion," the President said in his address to Congress on Sept. 20, 2001. Five days later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that "it will not be an antiseptic war, I regret to say. It will be difficult. It will be dangerous. The likelihood is that more people may be lost." Armchair generals filled the airwaves with frets about the coming quagmire, pointing out that Afghanistan's forbidding terrain and wily guerrillas had sent two great powers packing in the past. This...
...Algerian at all rather than just French. Brought to France when he was only months old by his Algerian-born parents, Mesbah has spent his entire life in Toulouse. A bout of adolescent rebelliousness made him forgo the French citizenship his eight siblings obtained, something he must now regret. The 1994 shooting of his younger sister scarred Mesbah, affidavits from psychologists note, and contributed to his subsequent abuse of alcohol and reliance on petty crime. His conviction for attempted murder stems from a 1995 altercation with nightclub doormen; when he was refused entry, Mesbah fired shots at the bouncers, wounding...
...Brigitte Steimen, director of Swiss Labor Assistance. "Being poor is seen as one's own fault for not working hard enough." Diaz, who puts in 40 hours a week, has a healthy work ethic. But she says she is "too embarrassed to ask for handouts." Nevertheless, she doesn't regret emigrating to Switzerland: "It's not easy, but I would rather be poor here than in Portugal...
...heats of the 5,000 m she held up a homemade banner reading "epo cheats out" to protest the inclusion of Russia's Olga Yegorova, who had tested positive for the oxygen-boosting drug, erythro-poetin, and was banned, but was reinstated on a technicality. Radcliffe doesn't regret her stand. "That protest was not against Yegorova," she says. "It was against all epo cheats. The testing impetus and development had stood still. I feel this helped turn the tide." In April Radcliffe won her first full marathon in memorable fashion: beating a world-class field in London...
...attacks—that it is instructive to investigate the origins of the phrase. The first recorded use of “moment of silence,” the Oxford English Dictionary notes, was in 1942, when the American Sociological Review resolved to “express our regret and honor their memory by rising and preserving a moment of silence.” Whose memory, the venerable OED doesn’t say; there are space constraints. But clearly, the phrase came into vogue when school prayer was disallowed; the OED’s next citation is from...