How long can anyone bear to live with someone whose mind wanders off to a place where their love no longer exists?
If parents never stopped appearing as all-powerful, generous, and infallible, as they do to their small children, nobody would ever become independent; yet how can anyone bear the sudden, irretrievable loss of such beloved beings?
Can anyone bear to watch Michael Jackson be dissected yet again in the court of public opinion?
And can anyone bear life straight, without some form of "opiate"?
In that role, the report suggests, Mr. Tenet more than anyone else bears responsibility for not halting the train of misjudgments, exaggerations and unquestioned assumptions that ultimately led to the flat declaration that Iraq possessed illicit weapons.
According to a brief filed in San Francisco, "The government does not concede that the Second Amendment creates a fundamental individual right for felons to bear arms, or for anyone to bear arms" like the machine guns at issue in that case.
How alone can anyone really bear to be?
The losses were, as Rudolph Giuliani said prophetically, more than anyone could bear.
She said, "If anyone can bear to look, perhaps you can".
Who, if anyone, should bear the primary responsibility (individuals, scientists, governments)?
