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...onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds his head as if it would split from shame or rage. He might implode to suicide or explode into fury. He is, in other words, your basic melancholy teen, believing that no adult can comprehend the misery he is undergoing just by being alive. He can be found anywhere from Liverpool. England, to Littleton, Colorado...
Since the beheading of Korean interpreter Kim Sun Il in Iraq last week, Koreans have been struggling to comprehend the brutal act?and wondering whom to blame. Some of the thousands attending nightly candlelight vigils have pointed fingers at the United States; others denounced South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun; a few directed their anger at South Korea's small Muslim community, with one man even barging into a mosque in Seoul wielding a knife...
...first pages we know that Peg's mysterious death will be the linchpin of Port Mungo, a tragedy with layers to be peeled back slowly. The last third of the book is an emotional plunge into a place that the temperate, fastidious Gin is in no way equipped to comprehend. "There are no mysteries," she tries insisting, "only people who conceal, only secrets." In fact, there is no end of mysteries. In his shimmering way, McGrath pulls back the curtain on a terrible one and says, "Look." When he brings you to that place so adroitly...
...annual World Development Indicators revealed similarly upsetting statistics: despite unprecedented prosperity gains in the West, the number of people living on less than $1 a day in sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled since 1981. The scale of the disparity is larger than most Americans can comprehend, and it will only widen if leaders do not take dramatic action. As one of the world’s foremost academic institutions, Harvard is uniquely poised to identify and train leaders with the capacity to effect this kind of change. The CID plays a pivotal role in this process; shutting...
...administration doesn’t seem to realize that the opportunity for avoiding catastrophe in Iraq has all but slipped away in the face of its unwillingness to recast its strategy. Does it not comprehend the mess it’s in? Or is it paralyzed by the recognition of its predicament, lured by the conceit that any reality can be twisted into political advantage, or busied with planning for some other move we don’t know about? The situation may already be unrecoverable, even if the U.S. acts boldly and quickly. But without a final attempt...