Word: sad
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...crowd is milling in front of the overseas-worker processing office. Dozens of families - some red-eyed, others laughing - hang around, trying to draw out their last moments together. "This is normal," says Amie S. Catigbe, who has just parted with her sister again. "Everybody hugging, crying." She winces. "Sad." On the tarmac, planes are ready to scatter families to Dubai, to London, to Rome, to Hong Kong. Women sit in window seats, bracing themselves for another year, or another three years. As night falls, they watch Manila spread out beneath them. The lights of their houses...
Your cover shouted of an "exclusive" grilling of Obama, yet you sadly missed the opportunity to elicit some answers from the Democratic candidate. There was no grilling to be had. For that, Klein might have had to bring up any one of dozens of serious policy, experience and belief questions that might not serve the campaign's narrative. It is indeed sad that the first time Obama is likely to actually feel any grilling is in the boiler room of the Oval Office. Jeffrey C. Kastelic, CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP...
...Antonio is the first in a new class of amphibious ships - blue-water buses - each of which carries 350 sailors and is responsible for ferrying 700 Marines and their gear to global hot spots. And the ship's sad plight represents in miniature all that is wrong with the way the Pentagon buys its weapons. The pattern of haste and waste accelerated in the Cold War's wake and simply exploded following 9/11. It highlights the challenge facing President-elect Barack Obama as he contemplates retooling an Industrial Age military - primed for state-on-state warfare - into the more agile...
...President, I will close Guantánamo," Barack Obama promised in 2007. Now, as President-elect, shutting down the infamous prison camp he referred to as a "sad chapter in American history" is shaping up as one of his first priorities...
...sad reality is that without any representation on the city council, Jerusalem's tax-paying Arab residents are given short shrift in the allotment of schools, clinics and such basic services as mail delivery and garbage pick-up. Jerusalem's new pragmatic mayor Barkat made his huge fortune mastering the intricacies of cyberspace. He may find that virtual world a cinch compared to Jerusalem's seething complexities. - with reporting by Jamil Hamad and Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem...