Word: torments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...witnessed Gore's recent resurgence, there is no doubt in my mind that, if he decides to run, he would be in an excellent position to become the next U.S. President. Although he has been successfully spreading his message about global warming, memories of the 2000 election must still torment him to some degree. I think Gore will continue to keep the door ajar and then some time in the fall declare that he indeed will run. By then, much of the excitement around Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will have faded, and paradoxical as it may seem, political veteran...
...agony is the cruelest form of torture. To say, “You are not suffering,” to say that your pain is not real is to relegate the reality of the sufferer to the realm of the trivial, the unimportant, or the laughable. Sometimes this torment is deliberate: I kick you and then laugh at you for crying. But in most cases, the willingness to hurt stems from ignorance or a lack of comprehension: I laugh at you because I do not understand...
...Democratic opponents do, and when she talks about what to do in Iraq, she makes sense. That should be all that matters. But there are about 873 people on the left edge of the Democratic Party, plus assorted anti-Clinton consultant trolls like Morris, who want to torment her over this. And she, inexplicably, is allowing herself to be tormented. One would think that after six stubborn years of George W. Bush, Clinton would realize there is a bull market for candidates who can admit, and learn from, mistakes. When John Edwards simply said "I was wrong" about Iraq...
...second half last Friday night, but was slowly bled to death over the remainder of regulation and two overtime periods by the infamous Princeton scheme. But despite the differences, the two defeats represent the same threat--an extended losing streak as a direct result of the psychological torment of Harvard’s personal demon. And unless someone steps up for the Crimson, it is a threat that could easily become realized down the stretch, as Harvard is on the road at Brown and Yale this weekend before returning home to face the Penn/Princeton axis once again...
This is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman who, despite 6 1/2 long years of imprisonment and torment in Communist China, not only survived but endured and even prevailed. It is a story that began more than 20 years ago but has special relevance today. That is so partly because many of those who benefited during a decade of madness not only have gone unpunished but are trying to make a comeback, and partly because a story that so vividly documents the triumph of the human spirit over inhumanity is always relevant. Nien Cheng, 72, born into a wealthy...