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...stories Baker has recorded bring to mind a phrase used in bitter irony by draftees in Viet Nam, who hoped to survive their tours and return to what they called "the world." The officers quoted here may return to the world after duty hours, but they sure don't work there. "My job was photographing dead people, and taking their fingerprints," one of Baker's cops says. "Holding dead hands, breaking off the fingers when they're too stiff to manage...
...Bitter memories shape the way Li Shasha, one the nation's youngest best-selling authors, writes about the contradictions of modern China. Li's father left his village in Hunan province to toil in the southern factories that power the nation's export-led growth. When Li was 13, his father came to the school where he boarded. The watchman, apparently not believing that the shabby migrant could be a student's father, didn...
Investigators in Largo, Fla., last week disclosed the results of an autopsy of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who was the subject of a bitter struggle over whether to remove her feeding tube--pitting her husband Michael against her parents, right-to-lifers and members of Congress--before she was allowed to die in March. The autopsy, vindicating Michael, showed her damage was irreversible, she had gone blind, and her brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush...
China's position could certainly change. In the past six months, a series of rows with Japan have reminded Asians that the two giants, with a bitter shared history, have never been at ease with each other. Even more potentially worrisome is China's determination to bring Taiwan back into the fold. The island to which defeated Nationalist forces retreated at the end of the civil war in 1949 is now a thriving, culturally rich democracy--the freest society that Chinese people have known in their long history. But to Beijing, Taiwan's status is a constant memory...
Deborah's bitter account is only her side of the story, because her sister could not be contacted. But it does illustrate that the way siblings negotiate such challenges can determine their future as a family. Those trials can bind brothers and sisters together or, as Deborah's story shows, send them spiraling into a vortex of animosity and despair...