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...shocked group on our first night, necessitates the use of a pile of clear plastic bags sitting next to the roll of toilet paper. Lugging to the raft the tightly sealed steel box in which those bags will accumulate is no one's favorite job. But the cruelest chore of every morning is simply getting dressed: crawling out of a warm sleeping bag, throwing off beanie and thermals, and submitting to the clothes that are just as cold and damp as they were the night before, checking them for leeches and squelching in wet sneakers. After three days of pulling...
...Gaypril is the cruelest month...
...master of the family, just as Allah is rabb al-'alamin, master of the universe. No more. To men like human-rights advocate Raji Sourani, who withstood years of persecution by the Israelis when they controlled Gaza City and then more by Arafat's secret police, this is the cruelest blow. When his twins asked for guns, Sourani took them to a toy shop. "I don't want a toy," said Basel, 7. "I want a real gun." "What for?" Sourani asked. "To protect us," the boy answered. "I'll protect you. Don't worry," the father said. The kids...
Alzheimer's disease, when the lights go out to the point that you don't recognize your own family, is one of the cruelest afflictions, as much for the once-loved ones as for the oblivious victims. There is no cure, and little treatment beyond a bottomless well of patience. But what if, as a healthy young person, you were told for certain that Alzheimer's was going to strike you down in your 40s or 50s? Would that foreknowledge be insufferable? Not according to José Luis Molinuevo, who this month delivered just that information to some 20 people...
APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH: Move over, Zelda. On April 16, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday will publish "Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius" by Carole Seymour-Jones. According to the publisher, "By the time Vivienne Haigh Eliot was committed to a mental asylum in 1938, it had been five years since her husband, poet-genius T. S. Eliot, had left her, years in which she had stubbornly refused to believe the truth that he despised her and would never return... 'Painted Shadow...