Word: rage
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...flag," as Walters and others have accused him of doing in his convention speech, this Obama railed against the suffocating strictures of race. At the élite Punahou prep school in Honolulu, he was one of only seven or eight black students. He found himself filled with a creeping rage for the assumptions his classmates made about him. At the same time, he was terrified by a sense of not belonging. "I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds," he wrote, "convinced that with a bit of translation on my part the two worlds would...
...soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los Gatos, California. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth book, on U.S. soldiers imprisoned by the Japanese...
BILLY CORGAN THE BOOK: Blinking with Fists, released Oct. 1 THE BUZZ: Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's publisher is pushing the collection by this alt rocker, who packed rage and rhythm into his lyrics for the Smashing Pumpkins CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Atwixt the twine and flowers divine/ Devise the deign in this copper wane THE AUDIENCE: Art-school dropouts...
...from the scene that has enabled the shift. The Bush administration is facing rising pressure from its Iraq and war-on-terror allies to forcefully restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the argument being that without a fair solution to the conflict - the single most important source of Muslim rage against the U.S. - the West can make no political headway against al-Qaeda. Until now, the stock response from Washington has been to insist that there can be no meaningful negotiations over a two-state solution as long as Arafat held the levers of power in the Palestinian national movement...
...little or no ability to improve its situation." Says Richard Downes, a reporter for Irish television station RTE who knows Hassan well and last saw her in February: "She blames Britain and America for what has happened in Iraq. The last time I met her, she was apoplectic with rage. She feared for the future of the country." To date, no foreign women kidnapped in Iraq have been killed. That is one reason for hope in Hassan's case. By Phil Zabriskie. With reporting by Aparisim Ghosh, Scott MacLeod and Michael Ware