"They got the break they deserved and nearly won it with one cleared off the line.
While the vile statements seen coming from Mr. Galliano's drunken lips on the Internet video deserved the nearly-universal condemnation they were receiving, there is pathos in the vision of one of the world's most famous — and best paid — designers alone, clutching a glass in a bar.
In fact, we're spending more on health care than any other nation on Earth, even though millions of Americans don't have the affordable, quality care they deserve, and nearly 46 million Americans don't have any health insurance at all.
By that measure, the K-12 sector deserves credit: nearly 30 years after A Nation at Risk, reform advocates are at last making strides toward building a culture of data-driven decision-making and real accountability.
But the well-deserved, nearly total national blackout for the Wizards may change quickly if Michael Jordan returns, as he has considered.
David Jewitt comments: "If anything ... Fernández most nearly deserves the credit for predicting the Kuiper Belt".
The Bergmanns take deserved pride in their (nearly) all-American wine list.
The show treated its young protagonists brutally, and they nearly always deserved what they got.
While New York Democrats aren't entirely convinced that Spitzer has turned over a new leaf -- just 44percentt said he was "a changed man" -- 67percentt said he deserved another chance, and nearly that many said the prostitution scandal that brought him down was irrelevant now.
They also seek to identify which of the era's many advances in medical care and public health deserve credit for nearly doubling the average American lifespan between the start of the study's time frame and its conclusion.
For most women, pursuing a legal career while raising children presents the classic meeting of an irresistible force and an immovable object: both clients and children are enormously demanding, and both expect and deserve reliability and nearly full-time dedication.
