Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...great sorrow of Irish soccer fans, the fat lady of their sport sang on Friday, dashing what little hope Ireland had left of reviving its vanquished World Cup dreams...
After the carnage of 9/11, there was no going back. Many of Omar's siblings who stayed behind are probably dead, and his father is the most famous mass murderer alive today. "During these years of loss and sorrow, I have had to reconcile myself to the truth about my father," writes Omar. "I know now that since the first day of the first battle against the Soviets in Afghanistan, my father has been killing other humans. I often wonder if my father has killed so many times that the act of killing no longer brings him pleasure or pain...
...incredible rehearsals the night before where Michael had stepped it up. There was a whole new energy in the room. For me, the news was just an internal collapse. Some people there had been with Michael since he was a kid. You can imagine the sorrow and the shock that all of us felt. It was a difficult, sad and dark day. (See pictures of Michael Jackson's memorial service...
...Washington before him, was compared to Moses. "There is no historic figure more noble than that of the Jewish lawgiver," Henry Ward Beecher eulogized. "There is scarcely another event in history more touching than his death." Until now. "Again a great leader of the people has passed through toil, sorrow, battle and war, and come near to the promised land of peace, into which he might not pass over...
...misleading title; Burke and Eloise never approach a plane where saying “I love you” would seem natural. The romance of “Love Happens” seems out of place, even inappropriate, in the midst of an otherwise clever and touching examination of sorrow and hope. —Staff writer Anna E. Sakellariadis can be reached at asakell@fas.harvard.edu...