Word: griefs
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...readers use this paper for clothing." And you are still terrific. But there's entirely too much harping about your sweet, squeaky-clean personality. One day on the job and people were already making jokes about Care Bears on your desk. A week later you were getting grief for being too polite to a sleazy video auctioneer who was ripping off customers. "What, no hand puppets?" snapped Jo. Enough already...
...sequestered Emily Dickinson, Hellman was one of life's winners, blessed with fame, money, affection and what she seemed to seek most, a measure of power. Her childhood disillusioned her. But whose childhood does not? Her adult life was not marred by more than the normal share of grief. Only the ordeal of Hammett's last illness makes her vulnerable enough for an audience to like, despite the verbal savagery that she hurled at almost everyone she knew. The decision to present Hellman in a two-hour monologue provides a further emotional advantage: because her targets are not visible, spectators...
...least once a month. Barbara, who lived farthest, could visit only twice yearly, but the others understood. When their mother died, the three sisters comforted one another--as they still do. "I don't need a support group," Bedford says. "My sisters are 100% there for me in my grief...
Tears glisten in Sencan Bayramoglu's eyes. The retired schoolteacher is describing how her son was one of 30,000 victims of the 15-year-long Kurdish uprising that ended with the capture and imprisonment of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. Bayramoglu's tears are not of grief, but of anger. Last week, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that, in order to comply with European law, Turkey must give Ocalan a new trial. Her fury is directed not only at Ocalan, whom she blames for her son's death, but also at the European institutions...
...Muslim living in England, and despite obvious differences with Catholics in my personal beliefs, I was deeply saddened by the passing of Pope John Paul II. The adopted motto of the Muslim sect to which I belong is: "Love for all, hatred for none," and we share in the grief of mankind. John Paul II undertook his mission as leader of the Catholic Church with great humility and devotion. He was a man our Muslim community fully respected, and our regard only increased as we witnessed the brave manner in which he fought ill health over the past few years...