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...grief can be presumed to be greater than anyone else's, but there is something special in a parent's loss of a child, with the wrenching reversal of nature's cycle of generations. Says Patricia Loder, executive director of the Compassionate Friends, an international organization for bereaved parents and siblings, with 600 chapters in the U.S.: "When you lose a grandparent, you lose part of your past. When you lose a spouse, you lose part of your present. But when you lose your child, you lose part of your future." Many of the more than 5,000 people killed...
Amazingly, there is no bitterness or blame in Borrowed Finery. The quote that serves as a preface to the book—“After so long grief, such nativity!” from Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors—is a fitting testament to both Fox’s past and her present. Borrowed Finery comes at a time when Fox’s adult fiction is enjoying a rather remarkable resurgence, spurred in large part by the newly prominent author Jonathan Franzen, who discovered Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters...
...Grief, Discrimination...
While HIS and SAS are serving as the ambassadors of Islam and Arab culture, respectively, many group members have been left trying to cope with both their grief and their fear of a backlash...
...elicit a mass response. Experts say the fallout from the hijackings and attacks on New York City and Washington is likely to exceed anything they've seen. Flyers have to cope with the recent deaths, fear of terrorism and a depressing world economy. "There's just so much grief around," says Jane Sexton, 30, a Hong Kong marketing executive and frequent flyer. "I'm not nervous about flying," she says, "but you're on a plane, and you can't help thinking about it. And with all the suffering, your stress does come up." Sexton says she canceled a planned...