Word: sixths
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...used to seeing the likes of our beloved “Arrested Development” and “Freaks and Geeks” terminated before their time, it’s easy to forget that even the best shows have an expiration date. The sixth season of “The Office” will premiere next Thursday, but I wish it wouldn’t. It’s not that the fifth season’s subplots weren’t funny—think Michael Scott Paper Company or the introduction of Rolf, Dwight?...
...Imperial.” The passion with which Vollmann overflows for his subject infects the (patient) reader. The seventh reiteration of some Imperial resident’s saying “I can’t help believing in people” is infinitely more touching than the sixth. “The Desert Disappears. Water is Here”—which originally appeared in a headline of a newspaper from which Vollmann quotes—is more heartbreakingly ironic and more beautiful for its rhythmic prose each time it is repeated...
...planning for what would seem to be a mutually beneficial arrangement has dragged on to its sixth year, and many Charlesview dwellers are saying that their patience has been tested enough and that construction should commence...
Western military officials, diplomats and Afghan officials interviewed by TIME all agree that the battle with the Taliban is entering a critical phase, especially after the Aug. 20 presidential elections marred by fraud. Karzai's credibility is now damaged. After 30 years of war, Afghans have developed a sixth sense about survival: they can detect subtle shifts of power. Rarely do they have qualms about changing to the winning side, even in midconflict. In an essay on the Taliban for Foreign Affairs magazine, Afghanistan expert Michael Semple and MIT political scientist Fotini Christia write: "Changing sides, realigning, flipping - whatever...
...right now, that Afghan sixth sense is telling them that the U.S. and the other Western nations are losing the heart for battle. In the Pashtun strongholds of Afghanistan, it is now perceived to be a good idea for a tribe to start siding with the Taliban, even though members of the tribe may not agree with their harsh medievalism. A critical mass is gathering, experts say. Elders who belong to once neutral tribes in Kandahar province are now telling their youths to take up arms against the foreign invaders, as their fathers did back in the 1980s against...