When I called and asked Robert about the site's current infamy and philosophy, he told me something that resonates particularly, and painfully, since Monday.
Most painfully, since the war began 55 members of the Fourth Stryker Brigade made the ultimate sacrifice — part of over 4,400 Americans who have given their lives in Iraq.
Consumer prices have been rising painfully quickly since the rand slumped in 2001.
The party's shortcomings have become painfully apparent since its defeat, as it has failed to offer a clear-cut alternative to the Democrats' vaguely left-leaning plans to offer more aid to families and become more independent from Washington.
Federal authorities, painfully aware since Sept. 11 that terrorists can hide in plain sight, have made clear they will act when they have concerns, even if the evidence is incomplete or the dimensions of the possible threat unknown.
But why spend so much energy describing the history of the Velvet Underground — a band little known in its time but painfully overanalyzed since — when you could be writing about the evolution of New York salsa, a popular movement still not adequately treated by historians?
This was about stabilizing world markets and keeping alive Europe's single currency, the euro, a cherished political project whose lack of coordinated economic backing had become painfully evident since a debt crisis started to gnaw at the weakest member, Greece, back before Christmas.
In the 1950s and early 1960s Hinman was thus able to compare a third of all extant examples of F1 at once, a task so immense that he had to invent a simple optical device, the Hinman Collating Machine, to help him (a device through which bibliographers have been squinting painfully ever since).
The breakup with that boyfriend has left her painfully unmoored, since the other woman in his life was her best friend.
While the U.S. economy officially climbed out of recession two years ago, growth has been painfully slow since then, and in recent months has threatened to come to a standstill.
Florida's Gov. Rick Scott also says he won't expand Medicaid, which is painfully ironic since he didn't mind government-funded health care when his company was bilking the Medicare program to line his own pockets.
