Word: condemned
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...born losers. Or are his problems self-made? He manages a decrepit restaurant in the dying Maine burg of Empire Falls--the place he was born and feels helpless to leave--in the wan hope of inheriting it from the widow who owns it. The limited social circles available condemn him to repeated and unpleasant meetings with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere new? In answering that question, Richard Russo's richly textured novel not only offers an enthralling...
DIED. DAVID ASTOR, 89, liberal editor, from 1948 to 1975, of the Observer, his family's Sunday paper and Britain's oldest; in London. He used the paper to champion his friend Nelson Mandela, condemn Britain's attempt to take the Suez Canal from Egypt, and print, without advertisements, Nikita Khrushchev's 26,000-word denunciation of Stalin...
...born losers. Or are his problems self-made? He manages a decrepit restaurant in the dying Maine burg of Empire Falls - the place he was born and feels helpless to leave - in the wan hope of inheriting it from the widow who owns it. The limited social circles available condemn him to repeated and unpleasant meetings with his ex-wife's obnoxious boyfriend. He has lost parental control of his bright but troubled teenage daughter. Why doesn't he pack up and start somewhere new? In answering that question, Richard Russo's richly textured novel not only offers an enthralling...
...condemn the bombings as brutal acts of unjustifiable terrorism and hope that the U.S.-led pressure now being put on Palestinian Authority (PA) Chair Yasser Arafat will force him to destroy all terrorist elements within his territory. And if Arafat cannot act swiftly and forcefully to end Palestinian terrorism, he should be replaced by someone with greater leadership ability and political support. The Palestinians have suffered under Arafat’s corrupt leadership for years and if he cannot control terrorists, they would be justified in finding a new leader...
...humanity. Theirs is a unidirectional accountability. They blame our sanctions for starving Iraqi children, but they excuse the tyrant who squanders his nation’s income building weapons of mass destruction. They blame our war of self-defense for the plight of Afghan refugees, but they fail to condemn those whose hatred made war necessary...