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...wrote a biting two-page satire in rhymed iambic pentameter about how hypocritical the high holidays were. Nonetheless, I chose to fast and attend services on Yom Kippur. The ritual made me think about the world’s hunger. It cleared my head. I was touched by the communal confession of sin (I couldn’t help comparisons to that other religion’s mode of confession) and the final prayers as the sun set. It was a beautiful observance...
...lives of at least 40 people, who were killed as the rival militias slugged it out with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. Several shells crashed into an Islamic orphanage housing hundreds of children. Some were handicapped, and many had lost both parents in previous waves of communal violence. "The children were terrified," an official said later. "They ran about crying and screaming." At one point the Sunni radio station, Voice of Arab Lebanon, broadcast an appeal to the combatants to stop fighting around the orphanage. Like other appeals for ceasefires that night, it went unheeded...
Life in the prehistoric era, as Marilyn French tells it, was apparently much like that in a modern Scout camp. Early humans fished and frolicked, lived off the land and sat around communal fires at night talking, singing and indulging in sexual banter. Life was generally not hard, she says, and peace reigned between the sexes and between humans and nature. This idyllic era, a source of some nostalgia for the author, fell victim to the most decisive and perfidious event in history: the rise of patriarchy...
Nearly 5,000 mourners gathered in the Alpine village of Tesero for the communal burial of 33 local victims of the collapse of a dam complex that devastated the Stava River valley on July 19. The day before the interment, Italian President Francesco Cossiga had visited the town and promised the government would prosecute those responsible. Later in the week, two brothers who owned the collapsed mining-company dams, as well as the firm's manager, were arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter and causing a disaster. Authorities summoned 60 people for questioning about operations at the two dams...
...only 5 years old. The family had the misfortune of living in the Char-Deh neighborhood of Kabul on the front line between two warring commanders; as mortars and rockets exploded around them, Mirwais and his brothers risked their lives every day just to draw water from a communal well...