Friday, July 27, 2007

but are they the *last* throes?

News item: "Iraq is in the throes of its worst political crisis since the fall of Saddam Hussein with the new democratic system, based on national consensus among its ethnic and sectarian groups, appearing dangerously close to collapsing..."

And if you have less than two throes but more than none, is it a throe? And would you then be down to your very last throe?

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