Word: painful
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...come to her house if they could please send Evans, who had never helped a family grieve before. Scherry is the first of Evans' recruits to die in Iraq. "You find yourself lying awake at night looking for some magical words that can help the family ease their pain, and there are no magical words to be had," says Evans. "You can't bring their son back for them...
...desperation and toward suicidal madness. The other, with acknowledgments to J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan, is fantastic, or poetic: it suggests that her grief has opened her to other realities, put her in touch with souls crying from the beyond for justice. As a medium (Geraldine Chaplin) tells Laura, ?Your pain gives you strength; it will guide you. Seeing is not believing - it's the other way around...
...contrast, many economists believe the only mechanism to address the global trade imbalance is a large, one-off currency revaluation in Beijing, increasing the value of the RMB significantly and enduring the domestic economic pain this would cause. More than anything, this would show the world Beijing is serious about being a responsible player in the global trading system. It would also help defuse the mounting antagonism in Washington and other foreign capitals over the trade issue...
This is why it is crucial for us to seize this moment of anger. We cannot let it pass and become silent again. We must use this hurt. We must channel our pain in order to make sure that these occurrences take place much less frequently...
...Parents' Pain As a mother, I grieve for those Virginia Tech kids whose lives ended abruptly [April 30]. Bitter memories will haunt their families for a long time. The healing process will take many years. Prayers are the greatest tools to help them go on and pick up the pieces. I sympathize not only with the victims' parents but also with the parents of Cho Seung-Hui. They didn't want the shootings to happen either. Their pain is the worst kind that parents can experience. There is no end to their misery. They too need our prayers. Myrna...