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Iraqi citizens may be resigned to another military action against their country by the U.S. [WORLD, Dec. 2]. It's troubling to me, however, that Americans can mourn so deeply for those lost on Sept. 11 but have no idea what it would be like if someone launched a full-scale invasion against the U.S. Tens of thousands of innocent lives would be lost. Yet that is what is being proposed for Iraq. The gravity of this situation should not be overlooked. KEVIN HAWKINS Cupertino, Calif...
...most nuanced minds at work in the dwindling republic of letters. It's easy to tell that from How to Be Alone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 278 pages), a collection of lucid, saturnine essays that have appeared in various magazines since 1994. Franzen is not the first serious writer to mourn the slow death of serious reading or to be worried about the decay of the moral imagination, each a continuing subtheme in a book that lights upon everything from the Chicago postal system to his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. But his estrangement is so persuasive that...
...remember so that we might celebrate the life of Rita Hester and so many others. We remember so that we might shine a light on the inhumanity of their killers. We remember in the hope that next November, there will be no new reasons to mourn...
...fellow who?s just seen his wife have sex with a devil fetus and jumped screaming from an upstairs window. Fortunately for us, it?s also able to be revived, in zombie form, on home video and, lustrously, in the occasional repertory theater. For those connoisseurs who mourn the genre?s passing, and those holy virgins who never knew it lived, a series like In the Mood for Gore is a bracing cinematic tonic. Paragoric, that...
...Each of us who worked on this week's special report also had a tear in our eye. Journalists work, and then we mourn...