Word: doorstep
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...this irritates Monica's husband Seiku. "It is much ado about nothing," he says. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." He is peeved at his wife's fame, in part because the press is constantly at his doorstep. "I want to stop this jamboree, people coming with cameras every few hours or so." He concedes that the locket is part of the story of Monica's ordeal but says no one should suppose there was a cause-and-effect relationship between it and the cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when...
...Before turning in for the night, Blickstead chats with friends. Amidst the flurry of explaining his whirlwind evening from Uno’s to Mather to the hot Asians’ doorstep, Blickstead, ever the Canadian gentleman, notices a quiet pre-frosh who has sort of blended into the background of the room, much as pre-frosh tend...
Orit Cohen hobbles angrily away from the house as fast as her prosthetic foot will take her. The 13-year-old doesn't want photos taken of the injury she suffered 22 months ago when a roadside bomb blew up her school bus. From the doorstep, her father Ophir calmly watches her go. He knows she can't run far. Her leg is still weak, and in any case no one ventures alone outside this isolated Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, a tiny fortress under constant threat of Palestinian attack. Three of Ophir Cohen's eight children lost limbs...
...election in April 2002 by promising to stop construction of a giant sluice dam on the Yoshino River. In a recent referendum, 90% of Tokushima city voters opposed the dam. Nor is the trouble found only in outlying prefectures. Governor Akiko Domoto of Chiba, right on Tokyo's doorstep, announced in September 2001 that she was halting a project to fill in Sanbanze, Tokyo Bay's last major wetlands...
Loss is everywhere on The Rising, but the album's best track, You're Missing, penetrates the unique horror of having a loved one turned to ash. Lyrically the song is a catalog of absence: a coffee cup on the counter, a newspaper on a doorstep. But the song rises to greatness because Springsteen not only recognizes dramatic details but also knows what they mean. "Loss is about what you miss," he says. "You miss a person's physical being--their skin, their hair, the way they smell, the way they make you feel. You miss their body. When...