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...horror has always been with us, a persistent secret, silent and pernicious, intimate and brutal. Now, however, as a result of the Simpson drama, Americans are confronting the ferocious violence that may erupt when love runs awry. Women who have clung to destructive relationships for years are realizing, like Dana, that they may be in dire jeopardy. Last week phone calls to domestic-violence hot lines surged to record numbers; many battered women suddenly found the strength to quit their homes and seek sanctuary in shelters. Although it has been two years since the American Medical Association reported that...
With no place to hide, tens of thousands of refugees lined the roads in all directions, seeking a way out of the blood-soaked city; the streams of misery stretched for miles. Most were on foot, carrying meager bundles of possessions. Scores of people crowded into buses and clung to the sides of any vehicle that would attempt the twisting, mountainous roads. The wealthy raced away in luxury cars with private bodyguards, the barrels of automatic weapons jutting from every window. Danger still waited at checkpoints every mile or so, manned by demoralized and frightened Rwandan soldiers looking for loot...
...would be Aaron who would lose 25 pounds in the next two months. Swimming three to four hours every day, barely eating any food, he managed to bring himself to the brink of near-starvation. His eyes were dull in his bony face and his skin clung to his frame like gray sandpaper...
...anguish and sense of powerlessness women feel when trapped in such destructive marital relationships. As a Venezuelan immigrant, she may not have realized that there were resources she could turn to as a battered woman. Married at an early age and after here recent immigration, she may have clung to Jon Bobbitt as both an emotional and financial buoy...
Larkin made a life's work of offering the unfashionable alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though, in his hands, that left plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when...