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...York Times [October 14] as saying that some scholars have withdrawn from the Islam and Politics conference for "personal reasons." I hope that I made clear to you in our conversations on Saturday that my own reasons were matters of principle. If I expressed myself more in sorrow than in anger, it was because of my long standing respect for you as a scholar and a person. Although you will not remember it. I first met you 23 years ago at a meeting to protest another operation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the invasion of Cuba known...
...barrier islands off North Carolina and last in upper New England, all of what the newspaper people call aftermath reports had a wonderful quality about them. They all more or less said whew! To be sure, Gloria's pummeling, up-the-coastline meander left a wake of damage and sorrow. Seven deaths could be traced to the storm. At least half a million people were forced to flee exposed homes for inland sanctuaries or public shelters in schools and armories. There were widespread power failures that left more than 2.75 million customers without electricity, some for several days. Long Island...
...quiet: a dog was barking in the rubble. One of the workers reached into the debris and pulled out a white pup, trembling and whining. "Senor," said the worker, handing the animal to the grieving man. It was his dog. He cuddled it, trying to ease his own sorrow in comforting...
...reaction, a mixture of sorrow, regret and anger, followed disclosures in a federal court in Pittsburgh last week that at least l3 major league baseball players had been habitual users of cocaine. The drug abuse itself came as no surprise. Multiple criminal investigations have focused attention on the problem since 1983, when four Kansas City Royals, including a former American League batting champion (Willie Wilson) and a once sensational pitcher (Vida Blue), were sent to prison for cocaine use and other players were implicated but not prosecuted. The impact of last week's disclosures stemmed from the detailed, often poignant...
...Communist takeover. Although Pei's success in the U.S. was growing, he "had trouble cutting the ties" to China. In 1954, one year before he started his own firm, he became a citizen, along with his wife. "We had mixed feelings. On the one hand, feelings of sorrow at having to abandon our culture, our roots and our ancestral home. On the other hand, feelings of gratitude -- more than happiness. Those mixed feelings disappeared ten years later when President Lyndon Johnson invited me to participate in a ceremony on Ellis Island. It was then that I felt very much like...