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...hung lines of washing (including the shirt I'd just given in?) above a muddy wasteland. And though I couldn't know it yet, not far away, the first stirrings were beginning to be felt of the terrible bloodshed that erupted a few days later, consolidating India's sad status as one of the world's centers of religious hatred...
When the last mournful notes of that born-sad song escaped from the open-mouthed breathlessness of the bugle, the six flag bearing Marines before me commenced to fold. Twelve hands worked in silent unison, tucking the flag tightly in on itself until it had been properly folded into a bunched package of star-spangled gratitude. It was given to an officer who held it between his white-gloved hands, knelt before my grandmother, and presented it to her. I could not hear most of what he whispered to her but the strong breezes of that day did carry three...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said he was sad to see Buckley leave...
...great relationship. I hang around with them all the time. Sometime people think there is a competition, but actually no. We play practical jokes on each other all the time. It's great. Clowns are happy people. There's a misconception that clowns are laughing in the ring and sad in real life, but it's not true. [But] I don't try to be funny 24 hours a day, because I think that's pathetic. Nothing is worse than someone who tries to be funny all the time...
Shahnaz Abdul is something of a feminist in Afghanistan. Exuding confidence and a no-nonsense attitude, she has practiced law for 22 years and is now assigned to the High Court in Kabul. The day the Taliban banned women from working "we were so sad, so angry," she remembers. But after a few months stuck at home, Shahnaz, 43, began reading to keep herself occupied; law books, mostly, and a history of Afghanistan. When the Taliban forced all women to wear the burka, that long all-encompassing cloak that hides women's bodies, faces and identities, Shahnaz bought the cheapest...