Word: murderer
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Maybe what has got lost is the distinction between negative and misleading ads. There's nothing wrong with a negative ad if it's an honest accounting of an opponent's record or position. If you're Gary Bauer and you believe abortion is murder, then, hey, run an ad saying so and why your opponent is soft on abortion. And how helpful is a positive ad anyway? Morning in America? Reagan's 1984 ad was all gauzy images of smiling schoolkids and happy neighborhoods. Yuck...
...newspaper headline cried out: FATHER MURDER. Some of Germany's most experienced, cynical politicians broke down and wept. Helmut Kohl, who as Chancellor from 1982 to 1998 unified Germany, was forced to resign as honorary chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, his reputation soiled by a spreading financial scandal. In the end the statesman who counted Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev among his peers was brought down by the likes of a French wheeler-dealer nicknamed Dede the Sardine...
...there has been no voluntary papal abdication since Celestine V in 1294. And while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...
...reasons that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...
SENTENCED. NATHANIEL ABRAHAM, 13, youngest American ever tried and convicted of murder as an adult, to seven years in juvenile detention; in Pontiac, Mich. Abraham was 11 when he shot an 18-year-old to death...