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Decimated by injuries all year, Yale added two more names to its hospital roster: offensive tackle Michael Bender and guard Keenan Smith. A full 25 players on the Bulldogs' preseason roster were unable to play for the second straight week...
...TERRY ANDERSON, BRIAN KEENAN, TERRY WAITE...
...difficult to get too huffy about the deal after reading Brian Keenan, Terry Waite and Terry Anderson on their years in chains and filth. Is a hostage worth 300 TOW antitank missiles or 50 Hawks? We know the argument: rewarding terrorism breeds more terrorism. But what if the hostage is your son, brother or husband, suddenly stripped of humanity and lost in a world that reads like Kafka with kaffiyehs...
...Keenan's An Evil Cradling (Viking; 297 pages; $22.50) conveys the surrealism of the ordeal, the loss of control and melting of identity that come with realizing that you are a pawn in someone else's game. Raised working-class Catholic in Belfast, Keenan is familiar with ethnic hatreds and the politics of wrath. He had a chip on his shoulder and a degree in English literature and had just begun to teach English literature in Beirut when he was grabbed by the Islamic Jihad...
...Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...