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...Egyptians are deeply worried about the latest outbreak of violence. "Why is this happening again?" asked Mahmoud, a distraught waiter at a restaurant near the scene of one of Saturday's two attacks. "These killers have no brains at all. Look at what they are doing to the country." Some Egyptians take comfort in the belief that the perpetrators of the recent attacks appear to have been poorly-organized amateurs with a limited capacity for mayhem. The background and motives of the attackers remain fuzzy, and it is not known whether they were attempting to exploit the growing political tension...
...control advocates are distraught over this development, predicting a rise in everything from road-rage episodes to gang violence. Gun toters may wrongly assume they have "total immunity from prosecution," said Miami police chief John Timoney. The law's supporters dismiss such concerns as liberal hysteria and extol the bill's passage as a victory for law-abiding citizens. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s excruciatingly macho executive vice president, crowed, "[This will] make criminals pause before they commit their next rape, robbery or murder...
...eight Mountain States. The desperation may be best reflected by a morbid joke that is being repeated in San Francisco: A son walks up to his mother and says, "Mom, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that I'm gay." Distraught, the mother asks for the good news. He answers: "I'm also dying...
...able to soothe even our most voluble foreign correspondents. Indeed, for reporters working from the world's war zones and other unsavory hot spots, the sound of civilization was Penny's marvelous, sprightly voice. But another thing that Penny knew was when work could wait. She once instructed a distraught correspondent, who had both a deadline and a screaming infant to contend with, to give the child a bubble bath and come back to the story later. Penny showed us all how to balance professionalism with parenthood: her young son Joseph would dart around the office for a few hours...
...women of "Embroideries" console a distraught member in Marjane Satrapi's new graphic novel...