By collectively pushing former Representative Baron Hill, the (likely doomed) Democrat, out of the race and replacing him with Mr. Bayh, they instantly elevated the party's chances to take back the Senate.
Douglas Hodge makes a doomed sense out of the Emperor's disintegration: he begins by barking his lines like a sergeant major, and ends by capering around his human pies, chef's hat wagging, mouth leering, eyes winking, the most nuttily imperial of celebrity cooks.
Bryan Burrough, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent and one of the two writers behind the hugely successful "Barbarians at the Gate", which recounted the vast and ultimately doomed buy-out of RJR Nabisco, now offers another cautionary tale.
I'm doomed to feel out of sync with my environment for the rest of my life, but if the price of normalcy is routine, then I prefer to remain an oddity.
These have less to do with the comely dancers who act out the doomed paths of Macbeth and company than with those clumsy, anonymous lugs in white face masks who keep elbowing one another out of the way to get a better view of the sex and violence.
Did my mother commission it, out of doomed affection for him?
These altruistic apologias are regularly heard from parents who devote their waking lives to ensuring that their children will not be among those doomed, when we run out of migrants, to do anything so useful as wipe centenarians' bottoms.
While the stakes may not be as high as war, or even zombies, I'm constantly surprised when companies launch a product that seems doomed to failure right out of the gate.
If we attempt to control and harvest nature -- or our natural selves -- only for selfish reasons, we are doomed to a life out of balance and a world teetering on the brink.
Not just that, but we'll probably see one, two, or perhaps even all three teams who looked utterly doomed manage to get out of it, and a relatively big, unexpected scalp to suffer the drop.
