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...woman in black is waiting for him. Xanana Gusmao, East Timor's poet-revolutionary and de facto leader, is working his way through a crowd of admirers. When he reaches her, she throws her arms around him and sobs uncontrollably on his shoulder. Her husband and brother were killed by the Indonesian-backed militia last September--what should she do with her five children? Gusmao holds her for a very long time, all the while talking in a low, soothing voice. Then he reaches up and gently wipes tears from the woman's face, kisses her on both cheeks...
...room so serene and spotless it could be a priest's quarters. They are also dressed perfectly, Patsy wearing just the right touch of pink lipstick. They don't sob and shout, yet they aren't passionless. At one point, Patsy leans over in tears onto John's shoulder, and he mumbles something treacly--and acted?--about JonBenet being "with us" in spirit. But Walters says the Ramseys believed the cameras had stopped...
Much that seemed off-putting about Beowulf to modern readers becomes, in Heaney's retelling, eerily intriguing instead. Yes, the Scandinavian hero kills three monsters: a scaly maneater called Grendel (Beowulf rips off the creature's right arm at the shoulder); Grendel's aggrieved mother; and, 50 years later, a fire-breathing dragon that mortally wounds Beowulf before expiring. But these bloody deeds actually occupy fairly few of the epic's 3,182 lines. The Beowulf poet, who is recounting legends that were passed down orally from several centuries earlier, is interested less in violence, which appears to be inescapable...
...create an opening for President Mohamed Khatami, who is committed to normalizing Iran's relations with the West and whose supporters won a landslide victory in recent parliamentary elections, to begin a dialogue with Washington. Before his recent electoral victory, Khatami, with an eye cast over his right shoulder toward his fiercely anti-American conservative opponents, had rebuffed U.S. efforts. But anti-American sentiment in Iran has a basis in the country's history - the U.S. brought Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi to power and then helped keep him there for decades before Iranians finally took to the streets to overthrow...
...turn around behind me and tap another girl on the shoulder. She is busy watching a Chem 7 review. "Why don't you come watch Bloodsport instead?" I coax...