Word: sad
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...kind of father who spends a lot of time with his kids," sighs Ahn Chan, an office worker in Seoul. But, come evening, he feels obliged to drink with colleagues and clients, and hardly sees his 4-year-old. "Sometimes when we run into each other, she looks very sad and starts demanding that I stay at home," he says...
...whose story it tells, there's so much of it: too many stars (including Elijah Wood and Lindsay Lohan, above right), too many story lines, too many messages. Laurence Fishburne offers wisdom over blueberry cobbler! Ashton Kutcher's a peaceful stoner! Helen Hunt's rich but sad! It's as if Estevez fears history isn't interesting enough...
...narrative history with short, contemporary portraits of historical settings. So Mak settles down to write about World War I from a farm in Ypres. He tells us about Hitler's disastrous Russian invasion from a square in Volgograd. He recounts the splintering of Yugoslavia from a restaurant in Novi Sad. Think of it as history with a journalist's sensibility - and datelines...
What Europe Hath Wrought Re the cover story about Europe since the Treaty of Rome [March 26]: I was sad to see that my favorite magazine has fallen for the European Commission spin. While the report cited 20 benefits from the European Union (E.U.), it was a pity the article did not list the 40 things the E.U. has not done. Auditors have not been able to approve the annual accounts for the European Economic Community because of fraud and corruption. Democracy has been destroyed, since most of our laws are now made by bureaucrats in Brussels...
...Perils of Pauline): "Let me fling till my fling is all flung." Yet she could also give heart (and soul) to a torch song, like the Pauline ballad "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" ("My love for you / Should have faded long ago"). Simple, sad and beautiful...