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That vagrancy was complicated by a sense of conscience and compassion that made him painfully aware of the hurt he was causing. Sherry responds to that anguish by trying to find the sources in life for what was memorable in fiction, starting with a dusty old man in Mexico, his hand "caked with dried excrement," who, Sherry says, was central to The Power and the Glory. The trouble is, Greene's magic lies not in what he found on his travels but what he made of it. Searching for his initial inspirations is like scrambling after...
...Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. On Oct. 9, as Mesud later told the press, he ordered his men to kidnap two Chinese engineers working on a dam site near the Afghan border. China and Pakistan have close diplomatic and economic ties, and the engineers' capture caused embarrassment in Islamabad and anguish in Beijing. In exchange for his hostages' freedom, Mesud demanded the release of dozens of Islamic militants arrested in a seven-month Pakistani army sweep along the Afghan border...
...want to live and I want to love / I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of” is clear homage to Carmina 5’s famous “Vivamus atque amemus.” Both of these bands channeled their anguish through eloquence drenched in paranoid self-analysis, deprecating and depressing, and play as if written with poor Rob and his foibles in mind, proving that the misery, when well-expressed, is at least sometimes in the music...
...Does the Koran condone killing? Clearly the answer is ambiguous at best. Many Muslims, particularly in the West, are embarrassed by seemingly contradictory verses in the Koran. The real story is the growing number of apostates in the Muslim world and the deep anguish of former Muslims who have abandoned their faith because they can no longer reconcile many of the teachings of Islam with basic humanistic values. Reform will come to Islam, and it will come from the West. Len Eleazar New York City...
Beslan: Slaughter of the Innocents If the tragedy of the school siege in Beslan, Russia [Sept. 13], does not open everybody's eyes, fill everyone's heart with anguish and stir people's souls all over the world, then we will never be able to solve any of our global problems. We should be united in our feelings of absolute horror at the senseless killing of children, no matter what our culture, religion or nationality. It should be our utmost priority to prevent such tragedies from becoming a common occurrence. We must rely on the wisdom and moderation...