Word: healers
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Time is supposed to be the great healer, the scab that helps us recover from tragedy. When healing comes too quickly, however, we tend to forget how bad our injuries really were. That is certainly the tendency in calamity-prone India. Soon after a flood, drought, cyclone, landslide or train wreck, the air is filled with the sound of breast-beating demands for efficient disaster management. Then the clamor subsides and the victims of tragedy are forgotten?until the next calamity...
Barral came naturally to his vocation. "My grandmother was a healer, and I always liked to touch people," he says. Working as a physical therapist before receiving his osteopathic training in England, he discovered that each internal organ has a capacity to cause pain to the spinal column, whereas conventional osteopathic thinking assumed the opposite. "At the time nobody was talking about manipulating organs," he recalls, "but I kept seeing patients with aches and pains that I could relieve simply by kneading their organs...
LuLing's story is the vibrant heart of The Bonesetter's Daughter, conveying her childhood in the mountainous, remote Chinese village called Immortal Heart and her love for her nursemaid Precious Auntie, whose father was a locally renowned healer of broken bones, and whose face had been horribly disfigured. How this happened emerges slowly but grippingly, as does the secret of the terrible curse that LuLing believes she carries from Precious Auntie into her second life in America, where she drills the fear of the curse daily into the conscience of her daughter Ruth...
...could George W. Bush look like a healer and still knock some of the spring out of Bill Clinton's step, the wind out of his victory tour and a zero off his book advance? Pardon him, as soon as possible. With special counsel Robert Ray--Ken Starr's tenacious successor--now weighing whether to indict Clinton for obstruction of justice, Bush might want to pre-empt Ray and pardon Clinton before any indictment. Bush could wrest the Bible out of William Rehnquist's hands, turn to an appropriate Psalm of forgiveness and make it the heart of his Inaugural...
Which side in this dispute will "do anything to win"? It is Republicans, not Democrats, who poison the well by questioning the other side's patriotism. Where is George W.--the great reacher-out, the great healer--while that is going on? It is the Bush machine, not the Gore machine, that encouraged supporters to storm the office where Miami-Dade officials were trying to count votes. It is Republican leaders in Tallahassee and Washington, not Democratic ones, who weave lurid scenarios of legislative intervention if they don't get their way. So which side is trying to "change...