I'm fascinated by failure, a far more difficult experience to ride out with grace than victory, which tends to bring out the best in all but gloating arseholes: magnanimity, generosity, ease, confidence, joy, relaxation, energy, festivity, and a positive outlook.
Here, the State of Texas pretended to make women's lives better by making abortion far more difficult to access.
But fourth, and most important, it has set back prospects of peace by making it far more difficult for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.
Last week, one software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier to share digital information anonymously and make detection by corporations and governments far more difficult.
The unfortunate reality, as noted nearly 20 years ago by Bishop and Anderson (1990), is that "the concepts of evolution by natural selection are far more difficult for students to grasp than most biologists imagine".
Nevertheless, the hard feelings stirred up by the reports were proving far more difficult to contain than the seemingly mythical cockroach infestation.
On Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy chided the White House for making the reauthorization effort "far more difficult by its failure to fully fund and implement it".
Retail stores, with their unpredictable physical environments and constant customer interactions, by contrast, were seen as far more difficult than manufacturing to automate.
Some of Mr. Bush's hopes of putting prominent Democrats in his cabinet have been made far more difficult by the 50-50 splin in the Senate which has made Democrats loath to desert their party and give up their seats.
