Word: frailness
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...this fight, you shouldn't be here at all. Beyer didn't know those cadets or whether they knew her or whether they saw her as a laid-back swimmer type without a soldier's steel. Still, their comments cut straight through her and destroyed the frail truce she had made with West Point. "I just shut up," she says. "But I was so angry. 'What the hell am I doing here?' I asked myself. The attitude was, If you didn't grow up just dying to be in the military, you're worthless...
...Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who is personally responsible for running down Zimbabwe's once thriving economy. It's time to take a hard line against exploitative politicians and crooked leaders. Mbeki must do so now. That is the moral responsibility that power bestows upon him: advocacy for the weak, frail and oppressed. Tafadzwa G. Gidi Stoke-on-Trent, England The Pope's Passing Your articles on Pope John Paul II painted a picture that was marvelously balanced [April 11]. An itinerant evangelist, hardheaded when it came to moral issues, John Paul II was a legend who gave a new face...
...going on in the winter of 1981. In the space of just three months, he treated four patients with an unusual lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PCP is what doctors term an "opportunistic infection," one that strikes people when their immune response is weakened. Typical victims are frail cancer patients and transplant recipients. Gottlieb's four patients departed strikingly from this pattern. Though tests showed their immune systems were severely depressed, all four were young men around 30 who had previously enjoyed excellent health. All were also avowed homosexuals, three of them with a history of many partners...
...echoed Araki's agenda, for the most part they avoided both partisan rhetoric and talk of disarmament. Like the Hiroshima service, which used doves to make its point, many of the American commemoratives made use of simple symbols to underscore mankind's vulnerability to nuclear weapons. The displays were frail and mute, but they managed to express deep fears for the survival of the race, which the language of policy analysis has not defused in the 40 years since Hiroshima. And they raised, too, 40-year-old questions of whether the Bomb should have been used at all (see ESSAY...
...verbal strength and in the way he faced down illness and death with utter dignity. At the time, it was difficult to watch John Paul's final two appearances from his window in the papal apartments last month. But when we will watch it in the future, that final frail and pained image just a few days from death will fit in perfectly alongside his other moments of extraordinary strength and courage: standing up to the Communist regime in Poland, calling on Mafia warlords in Sicily to repent, slipping in a private prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem...