Word: sorrowful
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...Capitol Hill is reflected in a gradual but perceptible ebbing in the power of the so-called Jewish lobby. "Today the great and grievous fright about AIPAC is gone," says a high-ranking staff member of the House subcommittee on Middle Eastern affairs. "There is a real sense of sorrow up here at what's become of Israel, that it's been reduced to bashing Palestinians and producing leaders like Shamir and Sharon." Such sentiments -- shocking at first hearing when one considers that their source is a politician who has worked closely with Jewish leaders for years -- are echoed...
Cosseted by the intellectual hothouse of New York City film buffs, Haskell is unprepared for living a life out of her control. A high achiever accustomed to getting her way, she must now deal with the maddening coldness of the medical establishment, along with the crankiness and sorrow of having someone she loves sick beyond understanding...
...ending of the Bess Mess is known -- she was acquitted of bribery charges stemming from her affair with a married man -- it is a tribute to Shana Alexander's storytelling that the reader believes at points along the way that Myerson and those around her could be spared the sorrow that ultimately engulfs them...
...when the very technology that can save lives is merely prolonging death, how is a family to decide whether to stop the treatment? By adopting the abstract reasoning of jurists and ethicists weighing legal arguments about privacy and moral arguments about mercy? Through some private intuition about how much sorrow they can bear and how much courage they can summon? Or by some blunt utilitarian calculation about whether it is more important to keep Grandmother alive than to send Junior to college? In the end, individuals are left with an intricate puzzle about what is legal -- and what is right...
...characteristic blast, Aurel Braun and Richard Day, two respected political scientists at the University of Toronto's Center for Russian and East European Studies, recently called Gorbachev a loser who has been "mishandling reforms and desperately trying to cling to power." Variations on that theme, usually delivered more in sorrow than in anger, are gaining currency. A veteran of the U.S. intelligence community last week said Gorbachev's "blunders are plunging Russia into a new Time of Troubles." That is an ominous reference to nearly a decade of Kremlin intrigue, civil unrest and international conflict in the 17th century...