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In a Bond movie, when 007 kills the archenemy, the crisis disappears.
(George W. Bush kills Gore in poll questions about "leadership."
Even though the games are populated by assassins and commandos, they are not excessively bloodthirsty; one even subtracts points for gratuitous kills.
To say that one person kills another is to say that the first deprives the second of life; but to say that a person murders another is to say the depriving is unjustified.
But the thing that always kills me about these politician-dallies-with-comely-staffer stories isn't the adultery or even the hypocrisy, it's how these affairs undermine the work of the other women (and men) who hold the same jobs as the old guys' paramours.