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...mean that the Church staff and the State staff exist in isolation. We come together in a variety of circumstances, to celebrate each other?s successes, receive training on strange new software packages and plan our common future. But recently we have been brought closer for the very saddest of reasons: to mourn the passing of a beloved colleague, makeup manager Joanna Chapman. Her death from cancer at age 32 has affected everyone who knew or worked with her, from London to Johannesburg to Singapore...
Today Erakat, 45, a political-science professor in owlish glasses and neatly pressed business suit, seems like the saddest man in the Palestinian territories. As Sharon takes over, Erakat is sitting behind his desk in Jericho, trying to make a joke about becoming unemployed. He reveals that following the Camp David impasse, Arafat and Barak were still conducting indirect but intensive secret negotiations aimed at achieving the comprehensive deal that eluded them in Maryland. He says a total of 53 working sessions, held as Barak was publicly refusing to talk until the violence ended, moved the two sides considerably closer...
...churning rocker that chronicles a doomed hippie romance, while Church on White, written for his late friend, the novelist Robert Bingham, has Malkmus genuinely emoting: "All you ever wanted/ was everything/ and everything/ plus the truth/ I only poured you/ half a life." It's the saddest, prettiest song in a career so far marked by cynicism, and one hopes it's a hint of what is to come...
...Johnson hawked the water gun to toymakers. It was going to cost $200,000 to produce 1,000 guns. Finally, at a toy fair in New York City, he was introduced to Al Davis, now the executive vice president at Larimi Corp. "I turned around, and there was the saddest guy I'd ever seen," remembers Davis. "He'd been trying to find somebody who was interested in it. He told me that if we turned him down, he was going to give...
...friends they once held in common. When we retire, the migration to the Sunbelt takes a toll both on those who leave and those who remain behind. Finally, as we age, our social networks can be further eroded by disabilities--our own and those of our friends-- and, saddest of all, by death...