Word: sad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the impoverished, rural and uneducated. In the cities you could seek out independent sources of information that put Milosevic's retrograde, neocommunist line in context. But with the war on, those independent voices are either snuffed out or taken over. Now, even among the educated elite, a slow, sad transformation is taking hold as Milosevic's distorted media prism resolves every shade of gray into black and white...
...story of the slaughter at Columbine High School opened a sad national conversation about what turned two boys' souls into poison. It promises to be a long, hard talk, in public and in private, about why smart, privileged kids rot inside. Do we blame the parents, blame the savage music they listened to, blame the ease of stockpiling an arsenal, blame the chemistry of cruelty and cliques that has always been a part of high school life but has never been so deadly? Among the many things that did not survive the week was the hymn all parents unconsciously sing...
...very happy," said Cathy Scott, mother of two, "and so very sad. My kids aren't going back to school anytime soon...
...have a mastectomy, then she gets rich from the pictures of her scarred chest, and finally she sues the physician who probably saved her life. What would she have done if he had given her a lumpectomy and then she had suffered a recurrence? Losing my breast was a sad experience, but I have learned that my breast was not the focus of my femininity and sexual appeal. I am now a precious woman for having courageously battled cancer. CYNTHIA S. RIEDEL Richfield, Minn...
...last Tuesday, an army of experts has marched through our living rooms to educate us on the signals our children send before they fly off the rails. Does your child show an unusual interest in guns? Is he a bully? Does he have violent fantasies? Does your child seem sad or depressed? If so, he may be in trouble, and a parent should intervene immediately. When I hear this I think: Well, duh. And I wonder: Where were these kids' parents...