Word: paines
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...Blunkett's private pain has public importance beyond the normal ups and downs of life in Westminster. He is genuinely popular as a remarkable man who overcame blindness and poverty to reach the top of British politics. But many critics also accuse him of a deep authoritarian streak. He has introduced indefinite detention without trial for foreign terror suspects; he wants everyone to carry an identity card containing biometric identifiers; he tried to cut access to jury trials and wants to tell jurors the details of some defendants' past convictions...
...film, narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith, explores the pain, suffering and human cruelty associated with AIDS and stories of people living with it and living through it all across the world. Most of all, it emphasized the role that those—individuals, families, nations—not directly affected by AIDS have played in letting it result in such a crisis...
What kind of people, the film asks, would not do something about the little Ugandan girl who lies dying in its opening scene, tiny, desperate and obviously in pain? What kind of people could ignore such suffering, or, perhaps even worse, feel shocked or sympathetic but do nothing...
...tone had the pessimism and frustration of someone who had clearly seen more than his share of pain...
...been waiting patiently for a World Series championship. In 45 professional seasons (37 in football and eight in NBA basketball), New Orleans hasn't even had one of its home teams appear in a title game or series. So while I can certainly relate to the Boston sports fans' pain, let's have a little sports sympathy for a town that has really earned...