Word: detachedness
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One day after the assault the scene outside the Yijin Hotel roughly matched the description given by authorities. Three saplings that had stood outside the hotel the day before were gone, a neighbor said, and detached electrical wires dangled from above. The front entrance of the hotel was covered with...
Pragmatic objectives such as halting Palestinian rocket fire out of Gaza and recovering a kidnapped Israeli soldier being held there have prompted the Israelis to abandon their own taboo against dealing with Hamas and negotiate a cease-fire via Egypt. Those pragmatic imperatives will remain even after Olmert has left...
A venerable school of historiography holds that great men and women make history, not that history makes great men and women. It is still a chicken- and-egg argument: Who or which comes first, the revolution or the revolutionary, the reformer or the reformation, the parade or the person leading...
These stories are not about me:In May 2007, the Harvard softball team drew regional host Hofstra for its opening game of the NCAA Tournament and sent newly minted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick to the circle. With one beatable team and one powerhouse joining them in...
At college I am at the mercy of this sort of memory. The loss of my mother confined her to my mind, to memory, though it was always one revived through her things, through smelling her cashmere sweaters or by smelling Chanel No. 5. Detached from this, I can live...