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Arendt would later write with matchless severity about statelessness and the “right to have rights”; here those abstractions acquire a prehistory in German-Jewish arrangements that proved disastrously brittle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Most painfully, Son also was shut out in South Korea’s disastrously short World Cup stay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

The Islamic republic has weathered previous blistering attacks -- by Iraq in the 1980s and Israel last June -- and a 1980 US helicopter mission to free hostages ended disastrously.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Robbie Williams, still a year away from his disastrously received Rudebox album, was the only member with a significant public profile.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

This agreement enabled Mark Antony to take up arms again and finish what he so disastrously started.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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