When he wasn't painfully explaining and re-explaining the elements of RICO or a conspiracy allegation or telling the jury what the government didn't have to prove, Mr. Saunders did manage to do some damage to former Sgt. Mark Arneson's defense.
More testified recently at hearings in America's House of Representatives, where efforts are under way to pass a resolution calling on Japan to make a full apology, and where some of the victims explained, painfully, just how wartime sex slavery was for them.
Always self-examining and sometimes painfully honest, Kevin explains the twists and turns it's taken him to reach this point in his career, with a critical eye towards both his past and his future.
The large and persistent decline in private-sector demand that began the 2008 recession and that explains the painfully slow recovery is apparent in the private-sector financial balance — net private saving, the difference between private saving and private investment.
"What will happen to us?" "It depends," I said, repeating my usual, painfully inadequate response, and explaining I could give her basic background as a volunteer with the bi-national immigration legal organization Al Otro Lado, but I was not a lawyer.
And while some of the empty seats in the press screenings can be explained away by plane delays caused by the volcanic ash, it remains painfully clear that the economic crisis has continued to thin the numbers of journalists here.
For Palestinians, and for some Israelis, the distinctions remain painfully obvious, if harder to explain overseas.
Of course she was right, but she was also trying to explain away the painfully obvious fact that she sometimes sang "harshly" because she wasn't able to sing in any other way.
That painfully familiar snapshot helps to explain why I have eschewed handbags for years, although substitute receptacles - bike panniers, backpacks, a large-pocketed leather jacket - collect the same humiliating detritus, amid which the everywoman can never locate what she's looking for.
The country has started on the road towards capitalism; and that will have big implications for the United States and the rest of Latin America.In this section On the road towards capitalism Losing its magic Don't roll out the barrels An iPopping phenomenon A security patch for your brain This way, sir ReprintsThe journey, as our special report this week explains, will be painfully slow.
