But in "exceptional" America, war means never having to say you're sorry.
The government's rationale is simple and direct: in times of war, exceptional measures are necessary to protect the homeland.
Newspapers are therefore filled with exceptional moments: earthquakes, war, elections, controversies, arguments, crises.
We then compared this to the respective contributions of averting premature and late deaths to increases in life expectancy, 8 9 using a 20-year moving average to smooth mortality trends over exceptional years of war, pandemics or famine (see the online supplementary appendix for a technical description).
Images of dead bodies (especially if the individual is identifiable) should be avoided except in exceptional circumstances, for instance in connection to reporting atrocities of war.
However, the government recognized the grave and exceptional circumstances of World War II.
The pay was poor; the large enlistment bounties received by some Union soldiers late in the war were exceptional; most volunteers made economic sacrifices to join the army.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell came here briefly in December during a trip to North Africa to applaud Algeria's "exceptional cooperation in the war on terrorism".
Announcing Mr. Vieira de Mello's appointment to the Baghdad post, Mr. Annan acknowledged his exceptional experience in rebuilding war-devastated societies, saying: "No one has more experience in this area than Sergio Vieira de Mello.
The Afghanistan experience and the techniques and strategies and propaganda employed in that war are not exceptional.
