Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Paul was personally affected by the turmoil of 1994. He could not make planned visits to Beirut and Sarajevo because enmities on the ground were too volatile. Rwanda dealt him particular grief: an estimated 85% of Rwandans are Christians, and more than 60% of those Roman Catholics. Some priests were accessories to massacre. The new faith was unable to overcome tribal conflict...
...CRIME: Grief and Questions in Union...
...deliver its likely epitaph. Were Republican lawmakers serious about the orphanage option? "If they were, they have buttoned their lips. This thing has been mercilessly crucified," he says. "I would not be surprised if they strike the provision from the bill, because it's given us so much grief...
...sons and faking a carjacking and kidnapping -- was released today. Smith writes that she felt she was a bad mother, "but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us all from any grief or harm." On the night of the alleged murders, Smith writes, "I had never felt so scared and unsure as I did then. I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part...
There are difficult emotions here. On the sweeping, sorrowful song Let Her Cry, Rucker sings about a relationship on the rocks, ruined by drugs and alcohol. On the mournful Not Even the Trees, grief hangs from his vocals like a shroud as he tells of going home after his mother's death. The album's most powerful moment is Drowning, a song brimming with bewildered outrage. The band is an interracial one -- Rucker is black and his bandmates white -- and the group uses this song to address the illogical, sometimes unfathomable nature of racism. "Why is a rebel flag hanging...