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...write from Abu Dhabi, where last week the nation was overwhelmed with grief at the death of their leader Sheikh Zayed. I moved here over a year ago to take up a position at Zayed University, a women’s college founded by the Sheikh and named after him. It has been an extraordinary experience teaching young women who will be the future leaders in this nation, a nation that has developed more rapidly and with more social responsibility than perhaps any other in the world. It has also been a unique experience to live in a society...
Just before Election Day, I quizzed some of my liberal friends about how they would cope with a Kerry loss. Their answers were variations on the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Of course, the more politically obsessive the friend, the more anger and depression were emphasized. One die-hard Bush hater couldn't even contemplate acceptance. "I will be incapacitated," she declared...
Bloom writes in his introduction that the book “rises out of personal need, reflecting a quest for sagacity that might solace and clarify the traumas of aging, of recovery from grave illness, and of grief for the loss of beloved friends...
This isn’t an attempt to apologize for a man who many claim has failed the world, made way for terror and broken many hearts. This is rather a farewell to a man who answered his people’s call for help, shared their grief, dedicated his life to their cause. Yes, he broke some promises and made a lot of mistakes. But by God, he made enormous sacrifices and made a great difference in the lives of Palestinians who otherwise would have remained in one of the many forgotten books of history. To Arafat?...
...never given in vain;/ ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty/ And sold for endless rue.’/ And I am two-and-twenty,/ And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.” It was all there, our overwrought, blinding grief, our callowness, our heartbreak that was no less real for all of that...