Word: joyful
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...change, killing reform legislation and jailing hundreds of political activists, journalists and writers. For the movement, Ebadi's award is an infusion of hope. But the symbolism is even more potent. Ebadi is the first Muslim woman to receive the Peace Prize, and the honor has stirred pride and joy in millions of others from Rabat to Kuala Lumpur. Ebadi was in Paris when the award was announced in October, and when she returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have...
...Ever since her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's fiction has sought to unweave the tangled web of family memory and to trace those threads that span continents?Asia and North America?and generations. Tan's stolid Chinese mothers are the repositories of those tightly bound reminiscences; to their conflicted daughters falls the duty of unraveling them. The Opposite of Fate is an attempt to pull at some of the loose ends, with added ruminations on the quirks of celebrity authorship, recollections of rocking-and-rolling with Stephen King and an inevitable (and forgettable) commencement address...
Remy (Remy Girard) Is dying of cancer. But this voluble professor, whose job and joy it was to spill out his opinions while his students took notes, is not about to change his m.o. just because he's in a Montreal hospital bed. So he thunders on about the long-ago killing of "200 million" American natives by European armies--"The greatest holocaust in history happened right here"--and snipes that his businessman son (Stephane Rousseau) "is a puritanical capitalist, while I am a sensual socialist." If Fox News had a left-wing channel in Quebec, Remy would...
...What a joy it was to read "10 Questions for Walter Cronkite" [Nov. 3]! How we miss him! How often we reminisce about his years on television, his sincere reporting style, without the nonsense of present-day newspeople who talk on top of one another, laugh at nothing and perform like actors. Today's news programs are unabashed competition for ratings. As Cronkite admitted in the interview, he retired too soon. JACQUELINE MARTIN Kerrville, Texas...
Inspired equally by the ocean, forest animals and Joy Division, the three-year-old band has risen quickly in profile. Since the release of their debut, they have enjoyed glowing, awestruck reviews from music publications on both sides of the Atlantic. They have also developed an infamous stage show that now features locally pruned foliage, a few toy birds and a stunning, seasick climax that—so far—stands as their greatest achievement...