Word: joyful
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Barring some unforeseen disaster, Lance Armstrong will win his third Tour de France Sunday. The 29-year-old Texan will once again be photographed riding down the Champs Elysees, fingers pointed skyward, something between relief and joy playing across his gaunt features. As of Friday, Armstrong held a virtually insurmountable 5-minute lead over his closest rival...
...desk, he worked from inside Einhorn's mind, having studied every word in the 63 different 150-page journals Einhorn left behind. Among the lines that stopped him, revealing the cold depths of Einhorn's darkness, were these: "Sadism - sounds nice - run it over your tongue - contemplate with joy the pains of others." "To beat a woman - what joy." "The violence that flowed through my being tonight...could result in the murder of that which I seem to love so deeply...
...assertion, stated by the Lord from out of the whirlwind, that Job has no business questioning Him. ("Where were you when I planned the earth? Do you show the hawk how to fly?") Some believers are frustrated by this pulling of rank, but the Sunday group accepts it. Says Joy MacKenzie: "I think we're shortsighted when we try to think of why God does things in relationship to us. That presupposes it's about us. Maybe it's about something that we don't get." Adds Nancy: "I don't think God is obligated to relate His reasons...
...those of us with a faith in a higher power, the story's final paragraph was the ultimate atheistic tweak of the nose: "a disembodied digital intelligence" may survive to note "an unimaginably vast, cold, dark and profoundly lonely place." Did the writer experience a jolt of perverse, sadistic joy in writing these depressing words? Shame on all of you for your pseudoscientific Chicken Littleism. LYNNE PERILLI Southbury, Conn...
...Erdogan's turn to weep tears, but of joy. In 1999 he was released after serving four months of a 10-month sentence. On June 22 Turkey's Constitutional Court banned the Virtue Party for being a "focal point of anti-secular"; activities, a development that leaves Erdogan, 47, in perfect position to lead a large number of rebel M.P.s, tired of the autocratic leadership of the disbanded Virtue Party, into a new party of their...