As he's driven by a dream of a child who'll destroy him, Herod's despair strikes us, perhaps uncomfortably, as quite a human reaction.

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The viewer is wholly engrossed in the fear whether Frodo can survive long enough to destroy the Ring - or whether it will destroy him.

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What if his friend secretly wants to destroy him?

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What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?

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What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) in the early 1950s on mainframe computers, the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) in the mid-1990s on Windows, if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?

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Zar Gul sets out to destroy Yar Badshah and expose the criminal elements behind him.

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The Tory papers, notably the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Sun, which helped destroy Michael Portillo's candidacy, will back him.

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He recognized the genius of Rupert Murdoch, while many others felt only disdain for him (and still do), believing him to be a predatory parvenu out to destroy "quality" journalism.

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But the war was not waged to topple him, the announced goal of the war was to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction.

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