Word: mourned
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...slogans like islam is moderation and say no to terrorism. Indeed, after the camel race-and a banquet featuring tables groaning with whole lambs (one animal for every 10 diners, I estimated)-there was an opera celebrating the royal family, climaxed by a scene in which the Saudi people mourn the terrorist attacks of the past few years. "How can Muslims do this?" the chorus wailed. "This is not Islam...
...believe God will intervene in every cataclysmic event. That is tantamount to expecting the total elimination of all natural disasters, all risk, all danger and the instant banishment of poverty and sickness. That will happen in the world to come, but not now. In the meantime, we should mourn the dead, take sympathetic and appropriate action to help the victims and find ways to assist them in regaining their homes and livelihoods. One more thing: let's pray that those events do not occur too often. Eli S. LeJeune Reading, England The Ongoing Iraq Disaster The public outpouring of support...
Mostly, though, Zissou prefers to mourn the lost past, aided by the odd joint, a Campari and soda, or an encounter with his all-too-knowing estranged wife (Anjelica Huston), who was obviously the brains of his operation when it was humming...
...then, Harvard shouldn’t be proud of its spectacular victory over Yale; rather, let it mourn its loss on the much more important field of overcomplicated pranks. Harvardsucks.org is inundated with comments, as the pranksters become inappropriately excited just thinking about their triumph...
There should be no illusions that any of the above will come easily. Israeli intelligence predicts privately that the Palestinians will never pull together elections by Jan. 9, the deadline Qurei set last week. For a treacherous period, Palestinians will be in a state of anxiety as they mourn the loss of the father figure who symbolized their national aspirations. After years of fruitless struggle, Palestinians remain united only in grief and fear of chaos. Their economy has been shattered, their government is bankrupt, and militants continue to gain strength. Most Palestinians yearn for peace but doubt that whoever leads...