Word: lifeness
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...wears a hat, which, as it happens, is beige. That's appropriate, because we begin to see that Givens' life and character could easily have gone either way. Olyphant was also in Deadwood, as sheriff Seth Bullock, who shares more than just a badge with Givens. Bullock's devotion to the law was fierce and brutal, driven by a seething anger over injustices in his childhood...
...reason is clear: Chile is a country that is rich enough and well governed enough to insist that buildings be constructed to withstand quakes. Haiti is neither. There is a lesson in this. The biggest threat to human life was once natural disasters. Now it is our own shortcomings. To walk through Chile's gleaming and unbroken capital is to learn that although earthquakes, when coupled with dire poverty, can do terrible harm, we have the capacity to mitigate...
...going to push us back to civil war," says Daha Arwai, the head of a charity that looks after the children and widows of men murdered by militias. Will Iraq's leaders prove her wrong? Joe Biden is convinced they will - but then, the Vice President is one of life's sunny optimists. Most others, watching Iraq, have their fingers very firmly crossed...
...were tortured with abysmal despair. For them, he plundered the rich, ravaged history of Mississippi and the Deep South, which, he said, "might be wretched, but it can howl." Many have chronicled this past, but none have captured its psyche as Barry did. He wrote and lived his life in the same way he led the post-Faulkner literary renaissance in Oxford--wide open and fearlessly, the same way that Civil War cavalrymen rode into battle, hurling an expression that Barry often employed when signing books for friends: "Sabers...
...moment you met Dawn, you knew that your life had been touched by a unique, very precious person. She brought inspiration and light into the lives of all she met. Dawn was the kind of person whose very presence made those around her better. Her loss doesn't change that...