Word: griefs
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...Brothers to indefinitely postpone the release of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Collateral Damage." Superhero publishers don't really have that option since nearly all of their product follows this premise. Instead they are going forward and hoping for the best. "We're going to get lots and lots of grief but frankly I think it's worth the grief to preserve that form of speech that we've chosen," says Bill Jemas, President and C.O.O. of Marvel...
Chaminade High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Mineola, N. Y., on Long Island, bore a bigger burden than most, losing 62 family members, friends and alumni in the tragedy. But its religious moorings gave teachers a language with which to talk about grief. Students prayed for the victims at the beginning of each class and in their Monday-afternoon prayer clubs. The optional lunchtime prayer service was standing-room only, with some lingering long afterward. But grieving students mostly huddled in private conversations with their teachers. At this sturdy school, where even adolescents with braces are called "Chaminade...
Lessons in Grief...
...possible. But it would be a mistake to confuse the reaction of the past weeks, a culture of mourning, with a long-term change. The public's current emotions are many--grief, anger, shame, helplessness--but we may look back on them as the simplest ones we experienced during this chapter of history. And our response has already been more complex than you might think. Some have predicted a return to light escapism. Video-rental stores reported a spike in comedy rentals. MGM expanded the comedy Legally Blonde onto 1,300 screens after movie houses began pleading for feel-good...
...President Bush faced a transcendent challenge Thursday night, to address a nation in all its grief and anger and confusion over what comes next. It's hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind - the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need...