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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years when Maxine died after a stroke earlier this year. "Her death wasn't a surprise, and I handled everything right after the funeral with ease," says John, 74, a retired health-care worker in Nashville, Tenn. But five weeks later, he woke up one morning and began to sob. "My world had caved in, and I wanted to die," he says. �As the tears flowed, he wondered how he could go on without his best friend and the love of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going It Alone | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...western media lap up the sob stories dished out by apologists for the jihadists vowing destruction of everything un-Islamic on the face of the earth? Attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez, arguing the case of detainee al-Qahtani, is obviously an interested party. Otherwise she would not have gone fishing for the kind of information she dishes out to gullible liberal media. She has been conditioned to use anything she can find against the government and paint al-Qahtani as an innocent victim, no matter what the truth is. Why doesn't Time get stories from those who are on the receiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...prisoners by denying them basic human rights and decency, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next - hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists? Gilbert Laraque Miami Why do the Western media lap up the sob stories dished out by apologists for the jihadists vowing destruction of everything un-Islamic on the face of the earth? Attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez, arguing the case of detainee al-Qahtani, is obviously an interested party. Otherwise she would not have gone fishing for the kind of information she dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Gathering Storm | 3/28/2006 | See Source »

...alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.com, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of a parent—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scam Ends in Guilty Plea | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

...onscreen speech is a mix of concealments and confidences, of whispers in a cave or under the covers. And he's not speaking softly just so you will be startled when he explodes. In a crucial scene he's less likely to shout than to stare or slouch--or sob, as he does, quietly but with naked intensity, in The Constant Gardener. It's his way of inhabiting all sides of someone like Justin. "I love it," he says, "when a film shows a character roundabout and through and through. A man may have wonderful qualities and also have weaknesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Happened to Ralph Fiennes? | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

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