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...sunny day when the Twin Towers collapsed. In the five years since, some have been able to move on and others are still frozen in time. Adkins, the chaplain, said a part of him always will be frozen. "I have memories of this that I?ll take to my grave," he said...
...response, China has launched a 10-city "Break Internet Addiction" tour aimed at the nation's imperiled youth. If the problem isn't tackled now, says sociologist Tao Hongkai, it could have grave consequences. "The kids who are are already in their late teens or twenties don't want to find a job," he laments. "They just want to stay at home and play games...
...nuances. Willie has what Huey Long surely did not: a primitive sense of original sin. He believes the world is essentially dirt and that man is born of that filth. He speaks of man living out his life between the stench of the diaper and the stench of the grave. There is, finally, no one in the novel or in this movie who is untouched (or unmoved) by that dark and hopeless fatedness. So you can, if you will, think of All the King's Men as a purely political parable, but that is to miss its blackest, bleakest meanings...
...older brother Vicente, "El Professor," who supposedly hired the assassins who killed Carlos. He was shot two years ago in an ambush, at the age of 39. But it wasn't until Sept. 1 that Casta?o's skeleton was dug out of a shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o, once the most feared man in Colombia. It was a faster death than Casta?o probably deserved; many of his victims were killed by chainsaw...
This has become the loss with no grave, no chance for mourning, because we still live it every day--the loss of that transcendent unity, global goodwill, common purpose born of righteous anger that wrapped us like a bandage those first months after the attacks: a President with a 90% approval rating, a Congress working as one, expressions of sympathy and offers of help from every corner of the planet. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, said Le Monde...