While these were only oil on canvas, cast in bronze or forged in steel, not living people, the tragedy is minimized but their destruction is almost as sad, because it was equally needless and equally barbaric.

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"It is almost a sad fact that that feels like a win -- that it is not so bad, " Flowers told CNN during a visit on Tuesday -- just 98 days, or 14 weeks, until the November election.

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What is clear as a result of reading Mr. Kirsch's book is the sad reflection that almost everything in Grynszpan's short life was done alone.

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It is ironic, not to say sad, that Mussolini would almost certainly have been proud of this extremist and potentially dangerous tract.

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Almost every night sold out, and he says he found he felt sad on the final night.

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For Mr Rivlin, however, the near-unanimous assault on the privileges of Ms Zoabi, who was almost physically attacked by another woman member when she appeared at the plenary session, illustrates a sad erosion of Israel's democratic and parliamentary tradition.

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Often described as "winter blues", Rosenthal found the condition was more prevalent in northern latitudes: virtually no-one in sunny Florida was diagnosed with the condition while almost one in 10 of the population further north in New Hampshire was said to suffer from SAD.

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The Second Era, which saw Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts almost routinely venturing into space, was punctuated in 1969 when Neil Armstrong (who, in a sad irony, just passed at the age of 82) and Dr. Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon.

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