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...escape the ostracism he will face if his homosexuality is exposed in his religious community. Instead he unleashes an army of demons that haunt him as he is haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan's experience of coming to terms with his own homosexuality in a culture where it was "never talked about but always a shadow...
...sure the other tall people of the world understand my plight on planes. It comes with the territory. Everyone looks up to you and you get used...
When TIME set out to cover the plight of women giving birth in Rwanda--where 1 in 9 women dies during childbirth--we did so with a plan to help readers help the women we were writing about. Working with Netaid and the International Rescue Committee, TIME developed "birthing kits," which will be distributed to Rwandan women to help ensure safer, cleaner deliveries of their children. We chronicled the tragic death of one Rwandan woman and unveiled the new Internet initiative in our April 17 issue...
...Neil is fascinated with a group of obscure persons known simply as the English Palladians, whose lasting contribution is the style of window named for them. For the last 10 years, the president has recounted the same story to incoming first-year students in his opening address, describing the plight of a young bookworm, from Kansas or some other such backwater, who suddenly discovers a love for the Palladians while at Harvard. Distraught parents can scarcely understand young Junior's not-so-lucrative interest, but nonetheless this avocation is destined to become a vocation. Well, as it happens...
...Brien won a national writing award for a short story on the plight of a middle-class Irish teenager who wants to apply to college but knows his undertaker father expects him to join the family business...