Word: griefs
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...could track the stages of grief, because something precious had surely died: a hope that the world might one day come to see Americans as we see ourselves. Instead, we have had to see ourselves as the world sees us. On the very site where Saddam drilled holes in prisoners' hands or dipped them in acid, the American guards, instead of planting new values, harvested the ones already there. I heard the pain last week of people who had supported the war out of principle, who continued to support it after weapons weren't found and soldiers kept getting killed...
...night they read that about 40% of kids with A-T get cancer by age 12; 100% deteriorate neurologically, so they're in wheelchairs as early as age 8; most die of lung problems or cancer by their late teens or early 20s. "You kind of go through a grief process," Margus says. "Your kids aren't dead, but the kids you thought you had are gone...
Like recent grief, a burdensome moisture has dropped on the tiny capital at the tail end of the country's wet season. Taxis chug unprofitably around the town's dusty streets seeking passengers. As frequent toots and the precise hand signals of police officers slice the heavy air, lassitude is supreme. Only bony hounds present a menace to the few souls out in the mid-afternoon heat. In a chilly conference room at the Hotel Timor, a bespectacled delegate is setting out Australia's position during official talks that are meant to build a permanent legal fence...
...worth the wait. That war remains the great hinge on which 20th century America turned. The men and women who fought it deserve a monument commensurate with what they endured and accomplished. What have they actually got? Purest banality, an inert plaza dressed with off-the-shelf symbols of grief and glory. This is more than a missed opportunity. It's one more misfortune...
...friend is named Shermy, and they spend most of their time with a blond named Patty (not Peppermint) and cruel Violet, a winsome brunet who gets a lot of semifunny gags involving mud pies. Charlie Brown is more into golf than baseball, and he says, "Great Scott!", not "Good Grief!" His personality is different too. He's more of a mischievous prankster; he can often be seen scampering off in the last frame with a punk'd victim in hot pursuit. Once or twice Schulz even breaks one of the cardinal rules of Peanuts: he lets us hear the voice...