Word: stomachly
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...capital to Guadalcanal. That brought an influx, over the years, of migrants from the neighboring island of Malaita onto Guadalcanal, and the Isitabu group has waged a bloody campaign to evict them. Economic sanctions remain the West's most powerful response to such turmoil, but Western leaders have little stomach for an option that will punish the islands' already impoverished residents. Which is why it may be some time before Britain's former Pacific islands live up to the peace described in their name...
...horrors that Nachtwey's subjects have seen, but he is a virtuoso at evoking pity. The line between a bad photographer and a good photographer of these horrors is drawn where the photographs stop making you feeling just sick and start making you feel both sick and sad. My stomach-knots and grief persisted long after seeing Inferno, and that is no mean feat for a photojournalist...
...always been: a way of showing the world in a new, true and sometimes unpalatable light, a fresh and direct sense of what we would like very much to ignore. The photographs in Inferno are, in their terrible beauty, both admirable and unforgettable; they will remind anyone who has stomach enough to view them that the world is still a nasty place, and that we should be thankful and mindful of our lucky lots in life...
...several gun manufacturers suspended negotiations with state and local officials, in hope that they would win protection from lawsuits if Bush were elected. Al Gore attacked Bush as a tool of the N.R.A. Bush, while long friendly to the gun lobby, tried to distance himself from it. "It's stomach churning," says Donna Dees-Thomases, chief organizer of the Million Mom March. "But it's still important for us to remain nonpartisan. There are still Republicans who want to do the right thing" on gun control...
...couldn't decide. But the idea of pulling the plug was too much. I had had to do the same thing for my mom, who died of Lou Gehrig's disease, and I couldn't bear to do it again. So I agreed to a tracheotomy and a stomach tube to keep him breathing and getting nourishment...