Word: vaines
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...bloody coup in 1962, and have been running the country with a truncheon ever since. Second, because of us. There has been no real roar against these human rights abusers, just the odd bark. Yet even single-party democracies check their mail. They're not just muscle; they're vain. Even juntas measure just how many boos and hisses they can get away with. Suu Kyi's peaceful bloody-mindedness is driven by courage, but her captors' bloody bloody-mindedness is driven by fear--fear of losing the business they are running for themselves...
...Until now, Americans have been told that those opposing the U.S. presence in Iraq are either foreign terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, or else Baathist desperadoes trying in vain to restore the old regime. But the Fallujah killings blasted a hole in the administration's standard explanations for ongoing violence in Iraq. The mob that danced around the charred bodies of the four Americans were very ordinary looking young Iraqis, making no effort to hide their identity despite the presence of numerous cameras - not exactly the behavior of Baathists or foreigners plotting furtively in the shadows. But then, Fallujah...
Understandably, the hard-earned exhausting victory was in a way tainted by the incident, but not fought in vain...
These are tough times out there in the vast radio wasteland, what with the FCC threatening Serious and Longterm consequences for on-air personalities who take their rules of propriety in vain. For those of you scoring at home, here's a rogue?s gallery of radio personalities recently dropped for on-air obscenity: Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and Sandra Tsing...
Sadly, I didn't get to prove that point to my doctor--our son was a breech baby and delivered by caesarean section. But the hypnobirthing lessons were not in vain: they helped me cope when two anesthesiologists made six attempts at inserting my spinal block for surgery, and I was able to relax through the postsurgical pain with a minimum of medication. Four months later, when our son finally falls asleep each night, I know just how to relax and swiftly follow suit...