Word: forgottenness
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...course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government in Kinshasa has been an authority as distant as any colonial power. As a state in the modern sense, Congo may have long...
...sifting through some 600,000 pages of Ambassador Kennedy's papers in order to produce Hostage to Fortune, The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (Viking; 764 pages; $39.95). As Smith describes it, her search through the often crumbling documents (some uncatalogued at the JFK Library in Boston, some forgotten in a warehouse in Long Island City, N.Y., and others found in the attic above the room in Hyannis Port, Mass., where Joe Kennedy died in 1969) has a quality of the newsreel reporter's quest for Charles Foster Kane...
...court to map the journey of a blood donor turned life taker. Only last August, a man named Michael McDermott who used the handle "Mucko" was preaching peace in an Internet discussion about explosives. He reprimanded someone looking to buy land mines: "It would seem that some 'Christians' have forgotten the Sixth Commandment. It is hard to imagine Jesus resorting to land mines." The commandment is Thou Shalt Not Kill...
...BOOM'S GONE ON SO LONG, WE'VE FORGOTTEN WHAT A RECESSION LOOKS LIKE...
...didn't give the best speech of his life, as Gore had, but it didn't have to be. The words didn't soar, but they performed what Bush evidently considered a more important task on this Post-Election Day 36 - they nudged the nation forward, to subjects long forgotten. Education. Social Security. Medicare. Prescription drugs. Tax relief. Foreign policy. The military. Common ground...