Word: orphaning
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...Characters like Mandy are easy to ridicule, and in Nell Freudenberger's short story The Orphan, part of her debut collection, Lucky Girls, the author satirizes with efficiency, content to let her targets hang themselves with their own words. But Freudenberger is after more than the easy comedy of young Americans in old Asia. She seeks the unseen forces that bind together families?both biological and artificial?no matter how far apart their individual members roam. At the orphanage where Mandy works with AIDS-afflicted children, the suddenly tender daughter hands an infant to her squeamish, confused mother, Alice...
...American woman drifting in New Delhi after the death of her married Indian lover, Freudenberger hits the telling detail again and again, as when her narrator looks at the Taj Mahal and catches "the unexpected view of something everyone in the world has seen a thousand times." In The Orphan, Alice muses that Bangkok is "like a dream of Los Angeles," which at the same time "reminds her of the Mexican Day of the Dead." The loose anarchy of every visitor's first experience of Bangkok mirrors the emotional chaos engulfing her characters. When the narrator of Lucky Girls...
Conservatives are alarmed about the tone of our political debate. Interviewed last week in TIME, Fox TV talk-show host Bill O'Reilly trumped the standard definition of chutzpah--a man who kills his parents, then pleads for mercy as an orphan--by complaining that the country is "as polarized as it's ever been in the history of the Republic." In TIME two weeks ago, essayist Charles Krauthammer expressed astonishment at the level of antagonism toward President Bush among liberals. Newly anointed New York Times columnist David Brooks has deplored both the viciousness and the shallowness of today...
...girl smiling. There's a big minivan and a bigger play set. There's a countertop completely covered with food. "This is a very nice place," Emmanuel Williams, 10, says in a quiet voice. "I would like to go to this place." From the point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach; at his age he is unlikely to be adopted. For 13 others living in the same orphanage, however, the pictures could turn into reality - and salvation. Monrovia is essentially under siege. Food, clean water...
...died because of brutal attacks, based on false pretences. I feel ashamed for my country, which has sanctioned the killing of thousands more innocents, based on false pretences. Was our killing any less horrid, justified by faked evidence rather than religious fundamentalism? I should think the suffering of an orphan would be just as great, whether she lost her mother in the World Trade Center or the Baghdad ghetto...