Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somewhere in our early education we become addicted to the notion that pain means sickness. We fail to learn that pain is the body's way of informing the mind that we are doing something wrong, not necessarily that something is wrong. We don't understand that pain may be telling us that we are eating too much or the wrong things; or that we are smoking too much or drinking too much; or that there is too much emotional congestion in our lives; or that we are being worn down by having to cope daily with overcrowded streets...
...camp chores. A veteran of three battles, Ehtablay ran away from home to join the army when he was twelve. He had never been to school, and says he always wanted to be a soldier, just like his father and two older brothers. He has only a vague notion of how long the war has been going on, guessing "49 years." He acts tough around the recruits his own age and rather grandly answers their tentative questions about combat. "I got to use my gun," he brags. Around adults he sneaks back to being a child; at one point...
...close to the fighting find it easier to forget. Hamed Karzai, the urbane spokesman of the Afghan rebel government, spends most of his time mediating between rival mujahedin factions. Sipping tea in the Pakistan city of Peshawar, 40 miles from the Afghan border, he seems faintly amused at the notion of young boys fighting on the side of the rebels. He allows that there might be some children who take part in battle. "It is a game to them," he says with an indulgent smile. "They want to play at being soldiers." Karzai might be surprised at how well they...
...north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake the notion that the law is coming ((comin')) up short in its inability to deal with intimate human situations...
Evil? What an old-fashioned notion that is in an America where the seven deadly sins are taken about as seriously as the Seven Dwarfs. But then Stern, whose Jewish parents fled to Argentina to avoid persecution in Europe, has learned "the gloomy lessons of foreign experience." Although he is known as Sandy in the U.S. -- his home since 1947 -- Stern remains a melancholy outsider with strong immigrant convictions. "No person Argentine by birth, a Jew alive to hear of the Holocaust could march in the jackboots of authority without intense self-doubt; better to keep his voice among...