Word: sad
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...dark-clad crowd at a cemetery in the Serbian town of Novi Sad listened respectfully to the tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed...
...Spanish bishops have organized huge rallies in Madrid to protest Zapatero's new laws, but polls continue to show that the reforms have broad support. Indeed, after spending centuries gazing lovingly across the Mediterranean to its stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, the Holy See now views Spain as a sad example of how the West was lost to the forces of secular humanism. Such doctrinal concerns don't exist for Rocío Martínez-Sampere and Jordi Domenech, who were born the year before Franco's death. For both of them, marriage is out of the question...
...It’s great that we got so much publicity, but it’s sad for the UC that there isn’t so much interest,” says Freeze co-chair for publicity and outreach Windsor G. Hanger ’10, adding that in her opinion, the number of votes “reflects the interests of the community.” Sad...
...which he presents his and his father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all, and your hair and nails do not keep growing postmortem) and quotations ("After 30, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death"--Emerson). The result is an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage. "I want him to live forever," Shields writes, "and I want him to die tomorrow...
...said she would not be sad to see the end of winter...