Unfortunately, those circumstances were duly provided by a calamitous Republican Presidency and, now, by an economic crisis of terrifying depth.
The pace wasn't frantic, the plot didn't turn preposterously far-fetched, and the rekindled love affair between the C.I.A. analyst and the P.O.W.-turned-terrorist was sundered not by treachery or boredom, but by a calamitous terrorist attack that made it impossible for them to stay together.
Its economy had been twice ruined, first by Mao's Great Leap Forward, between 1958 and 1960, a step that precipitated a devastating famine and deaths by the million; and then by the calamitous Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, whicommittedted scholars and experts wholesale to the humiliation of manual labour, an act that squandered decades of intellectual capital.
But it was also an attempt by the elderly dictator, whose authority had been badly hit by the calamitous Great Famine of the 1950s, to reassert control over the party by obliterating enemies, real or imagined.
Argentina, shaken by its calamitous 6-1 loss in Bolivia in April, eked out a 1-0 victoverover Colombia in Buenos Aires.
But his support was also no doubt sparked by the calamitous water shortage in two Northern California counties, Siskiyou and Modoc, that are part of the Klamath River Basin.
It was a crazy, helter-skelter game and one that was overshadowed by some calamitous refereeing from a man who was officiating only his fourth Premier League game.
The devastation wrought by the calamitous years of 1914-1945 dealt a fatal blow to the country's capacity to perform this global management role.
Kerry — who was influenced by the relatively successful, if belated, interventions in the Balkans, in the nineties, and also by the calamitous decision not to intervene in Rwanda in 1994 — joined this chorus when he replaced Clinton.
