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...whether the Queen?s long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "It also provides a field day for some wonderful actors too little seen on this side of the Atlantic. Sher is a wily, puckish delight; and Dame Judi, her face clamped in anguish, radiates the stern ecstasy of grief. This queen of English understatement embodies Victoria?s belief: that mourning is the only way survivors can consummate their love for the dead...
...filled by court proceedings, verdicts, even executions. Perhaps that is why a surprising number of them emerged this week to say they oppose death for McVeigh and believe they will heal faster if he is spared. No research indicates that survivors are more "satisfied" or that their anguish is lessened when the murderer is put to death. "What [survivors] are doing when they look for someone else's death is to deal with the crime and punishment," says Pat Bane, executive director of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation. "Instead, they need to deal with their loss and grief. That...
...recent months saw a different side of the man--and cannot believe he was a child abuser. According to Douglas Foster, director of school affairs for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Dorris was a "relatively cheerful, even-keeled, generous, outgoing person," whose anguish stemmed directly from recent events--the end of his marriage and the sex-abuse allegations. "Michael saw taking his own life as a rational way out," said Jeanne Friedman, a fund raiser in Berkeley who was close to Dorris for 26 years. "He felt that the charges would destroy his family...
Well, now even that density has been penetrated. The Dow Jones industrial average fell a pulse-quickening 608 points (8.6%) at its low, after peaking at 7085 on March 11. And that doesn't come close to describing the anguish out there. Technology stocks are in a full-fledged bear market. They peaked last summer, and a whole batch of them are down 60% or more, including such one-time darlings as Intuit and Iomega. Merrill Lynch reports that 47% of all stocks selling over $5 have fallen at least 20%. The worst is over, you think? That...
...deaths of these two rap kingpins were followed by an outpouring of grief and anguish throughout the hip-hop community. Yet, Biggie's death evokes more than sadness; his passing also brings about a detached numbness and cynical resignation. Word of another fatal shooting will not seem quite as shocking...