As her career develops, her early works like "Gone" will doubtless assume the status of classics, losing their initial tear-apart charge.
Many of them doubtless assume that he will lose and are hoping for a better position afterward — still, the very small show of backbone that would be required to resist his takeover seems unavailable.
Most successful prosecutions in the past have been the result of whistle-blowing or a lucky break; regulators have long suspected that many companies have publicly supported the law while privately turning a blind eye to dodgy activities abroad, doubtless assuming that they would never be caught.
Some doubtless assume this is because Iraqis are incapable of democratic self-government, but many blame bungling by their own side.Better-informed American voters ask why Mr Bush's representatives in Iraq let looters gut Baghdad, why they sacked the civil servants who knew how to operate the electricity grid, and why they disbanded the army.
It isn't so much the work that's fascinating to watch — it's the images of people who are going about their lives seemingly unaware that they're being watched (even if they doubtless assume the use of security cameras), and images, whether express or implicit, of Thierry and his colleagues watching those images and, for that matter, creating them.
Tehran will doubtless assume that moving toward the U.S. position amidst a currency crisis accompanied by internal unrest will surely encourage calls for more concessions because the Obama administration will conclude that Iran's leadership is desperate.
The homeless families evicted by police from their shacks in the shanty towns that have sprung up on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince would doubtless take issue with the last claim, but it would be a mistake to assume all the anger that Haitians feel is directed at the ruling class.
Imagination is always projection: to guess how Neolithic people might have felt about anything was to assume, doubtless incorrectly, that they felt the way we would have felt about it.
What has gone so wrong that the Democratic Party is split asunder and Washington's pundits have, overnight, transformed Mr Clinton from political maestro to presidential lame duck?One answer is doubtless complacency: somehow, it was assumed, the votes would be there, just as they were in 1993 when Congress grudgingly approved the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Now, however, he was among peers appreciative of Ubu when he assumed the role, which he increasingly did, doubtless to disguise his shyness or, perhaps, his homosexuality.
