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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...

Author: By Jacqueline Armijo, | Title: Sheikh Zayed's legacy besmirched by Harvard slight | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: Buck Up, Liberals: How to Get Over It | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harold Bloom Quests for Truth | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

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?...

Author: By Mohammed Herzallah, | Title: The Day After Arafat | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: When We Were One-and-Twenty | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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