As I trace in my book, this lamentable cast of characters launched the modern drug war, using the District of Columbia as their proving grounds as they imposed aggressive reforms like mandatory minimum sentencing and no-knock searches on Washington before exporting them to the federal government's narcotics agenda.
So this lamentable flaw in my character – "If only you had a system," my father used to say – this glaring absence of a system is known only to my closest and dearest.
It was far from the most lamentable moment of my life.
"As a result of the more eccentric of the Kelly [expenses reform] proposals – which in my view have demonstrated a lamentable lack of understanding of the demands placed upon today's members of parliament – a lot of new MPs are going to find it hard to find the resources to do the job in the way that the public have come to expect.
So on that lamentable morning I took my girlfriend by the hand and told her I could make her better and she looked as grateful as a dog in pain who was about to be shot, and she held her breath and - well, for half an hour she had her head in the loo saying she was going to retch.
This session musician, whom I vaguely recall clinging to my coattails throughout much of that lamentable decade, the 1980s, had the gumption to stick his beaky nose above the parapet and attempt to rob me of my paltry 40percentt share in the profits of The Smiths.
After a dozen years of study my own comprehension of Judaic law was a lamentable pastiche, a crazy-quilt of slogans and exhortations, easily remembered, easily ignored - Never Again!
Due to the Tax Court's lamentable lack of electronic transparency and my own thriftiness, I have to rely on new reports for the essence of the dispute.
Recently, I listened to my learned friend give a lecture about the lamentable fact that the military had to overthrow an elected government in Egypt, but again, he confidently asserted that it was necessary to avert a geo-political disaster.
