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...eyes, and directly in front of me was my ungloved right hand, which was clearly dead," he remembers. "It looked like a marble sculpture of a hand. I hit it on the ice and realized that so much of my tissue was dead, I wasn't feeling any pain. That had the marvelous effect of focusing my attention. I had an innate awareness that if the cavalry was going to come rescue me they would already have been there. If I didn't stand up, I realized, I was going to spend eternity on that spot...
...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...
...back into boxes and the monsters moved out of the closet. Losing this capacity to fantasize is conceptually heart-breaking to me, but it’s not a cause one can rally to. For one thing, how could adults face the dull stress of a work day, the pain of lost love, or the reality of warfare if our imaginations were still as free as children’s? And not even the impending summer is recess enough for the grown-up mind, because Harvard is not the problem, it’s just one step we?...
...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...