Word: griefs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stand in solidarity with the millions who turned out in Spain to protest terrorism on Friday. With arms outstretched and palms facing upwards, they declared in no uncertain terms that the violence must stop. In the midst of our grief for what happened, our most sincere hope extends out to the prospect that this violence will end. We are with the people of Madrid in these hours, as they bury their dead and grieve. And we look ahead at the difficult struggle that remains...
Cuevas never believed it had. But how does a mother convince her relatives that she's right when all they can hear is her grief? "We thought she was just traumatized by the fire," says her brother Evaristo de Jesus. And why, six years later, did a Pennsylvania politician and then the police decide to take this mother's instinct seriously? "I must admit, when Luz first came to me with this story, I had trouble believing her," says Angel Cruz, the Pennsylvania state representative who relayed Cuevas' story to Philadelphia law-enforcement officials. "Luz taught me that second-guessing...
...years. She was different than she had been as a child. I wasn’t the friend to call the parents. I heard about her ailments—and her slow progress towards some sort of recovery—secondhand. While I can’t imagine my grief is as acute as those of her closer friends and her family, I feel like I now have to mourn twice...
Michael Van Valkenburgh says he does not rely on memorials to deal with his grief. But he found solace in choosing the design for the World Trade Center (WTC) memorial. Van Valkenburgh, the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), was one of 13 jurors to select the design that will eventually commemorate those who died on Sept...
...It’s really a strong foundation,” he says, adding that he hopes “Reflecting Absence” will allow Americans to come to terms with their grief from Sept. 11 and that the public space it creates will serve also as “a gift to the future...