Word: wondered
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...forget the Internet. You know, that shimmering entity that has enraptured human wonder like nothing since Helen of Troy. We're the "wired" generation, throwing out those silly paper books and riding the digital wave. Isn't that correct? Swell. Excuse me for not exuding giddiness over a development that, for all its great potential, still exists largely as a bog of mental quicksand for perverts and ninth-graders (often one and the same) to wade around in. Right now the experts are claiming that the Internet will forge a bond of understanding and goodwill across the globe. Of course...
Every time I turn the radio on, the first question I ask myself is whether Monica Lewinsky will once again make the headlines. Most of the time, she does. And most of the time I wonder if there is not something more important to talk about...
...wonder if the Secret Service is keeping a close eye on Hillary. After what her husband has put her through, there isn't a jury in the country that would convict her of anything she might do if she decides to take revenge. ROBERT J. HAVRILLA Pittsburgh...
However, I cannot understand why someone would willingly ignore God's great gift of medical knowledge in favor of enduring a health condition that could easily be corrected. Russ Briggs' watching his two babies die in childbirth and then seeking medical help for his own back injury make me wonder about that kind of "faith." ROBERT H. RIES Florence...
...wonder how much more suffering we have to inflict on ourselves before we start thinking in terms of fundamentals such as ethics and law, such as building functioning and controllable institutions, such as selecting honest and accountable leaders--rather than in terms of yet another khozyain. Wrote Alexander Pushkin: "It is only when the sacred freedom is firmly coupled with strong law that the people's suffering doesn't lie over royal heads." I wonder if we will ever really read and understand our beloved national poet? Or will we only keep reciting him mindlessly while standing in long lines...