Word: copely
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...envy a child whose presence is so precious to those around her. But right now it is hard to feel anything for Jessica other than enormous sorrow, and hope that her own resilience and the devotion of so many who wish her well will give her the strength to cope...
...Henry Cisneros must simply cope from crisis to crisis. He will continue reading to his son, turning down Washington invitations when he has to, and hoping desperately for another birthday...
...story is typical. Daughter of a poor farmer in a hamlet three days' walk from Katmandu, Manju was 12 when her mother died. Unable to cope with three children, her father handed her over a few months later to two strangers: she thought she was going to Bombay to work as a housemaid. When the two men sold her to a pimp for $1,000, "there was nothing I could do," she says. "I was trapped." She is never allowed to set foot outside the brothel. Moreover, she is expected to repay her full purchase price. Rent, food and clothing...
...could argue no. Even in the worst circumstances, art buoys us by the sheer galvanizing presence of an individual creative act. For all its journalistic force, Silverlake Life seems to have been animated less by artistic than by therapeutic impulses: filmmaking was a way for Tom and Mark to cope with their grief. Which is not to deny the power of Silverlake Life, only to warn that television doesn't get any grimmer...
...protecting students from failure we are not helping them--we are merely guaranteeing that they will be unable to cope with it when they encounter it later on. Failure, we seem to have forgotten, is a part of life. Getting a D or an E should not be a disgrace; it should be an experience a student learns to bounce back from...