Word: relentlessly
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AILING. NELSON MANDELA, 83, anti-apartheid crusader and the first black President of South Africa; from early-stage prostate cancer; in Johannesburg. Mandela will undergo radiation therapy over the next several weeks while keeping up his relentless globe-trotting schedule...
They are pathetic, aren't they? Even on the harshest days, you can find them huddled in the doorways of every office building in America, sucking in those sweet and deadly toxins. What do you say to people who engage in this relentless act of self-destruction...
...Arendt was talking about how the relentless push-and-pull of organizations and bureaucracies can create a way to blame the system rather than oneself. "I was just following orders" - that was the mantra of the German officers at the Nuremberg Trials. It's not a completely illegitimate defense. But I don't think Andrea Yates will say she was "just following orders...
...there are plenty of reasons for the industrialized world's enduring interest in the fate of Africa's second-largest country, which borders nine others. But the consequences of that interest have had no small part in shaping the relentless tragedy of the Congo's past century. Two recent books and a new feature-length film offer fascinating insights into how the Congo arrived at its present day chaos...
...little oasis of song in the Sinai). He watched us intently, and as we passed from lobby to dining room, and I, eventually, to the men's room, the clerk switched on the speaker in that particular room in turn, so that we were never without the bouncy, relentless companionship...