Word: whisperingly
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...were under threat when they opened fire is unclear. Most residents of Jebel al-Kashif claim there were no Hamas fighters in the area at the time of the alleged incident, but a middle-aged farmer in a battered army jacket took me aside and said, in a near whisper, that Hamas had been firing rockets from the vicinity of where the episode took place. An Israeli military spokesman told journalists investigating the shootings that the army had no information on the alleged incident but said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is "currently engaged in postoperational investigations...
...Alexander Hamilton explained in the Federalist papers, impeachments are political, not legal, trials. They inevitably involve "animosities, partialities, influence and interest." Through years of tough-guy politics and bullying the legislature, Blagojevich had managed to stack all those factors against himself. And any whisper of sympathy he might have been able to squeeze from the senators a week ago, he strangled by first refusing to defend himself in Springfield, then swanning off to Manhattan to complain under the klieg lights about the unfairness...
...consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit...
...interactive feature on the transition website Change.gov, which allows people to vote on questions they want Obama to answer. Some popular examples: Will you legalize marijuana? Will you appoint a prosecutor to investigate possible Bush Administration crimes? All this was done with almost no publicity and barely a whisper of encouragement from Obama himself. As a scholar of online politics, Personal Democracy Forum's Micah Sifry, puts it, "I think Obama is sitting on a volcano...
...night, they come together into a giant ball, which levitates over the city before breaking up and showering back down to earth as a new kind of precipitation. In the morning, everyone discovers a random fragment, containing "various faded words pressed into accidental verses." And to each reader they "whisper something different," touching lives with a "strange feeling of weightlessness...