Word: sorrowfulness
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...morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways. "I didn't have time to count how many died," says Damai, a nurse at a small clinic in Bantul whose uniform is stained with blood. She is ready to cry, as much from exhaustion as sorrow. "We haven't stopped working since morning." A grim benefit of the weeks of worry over Merapi was that emergency personnel and supplies were already in place. And the tsunami had given many of them gruesomely practical experience in rapid relief operations. But for all the city's preparedness, Yogyakarta...
...year in a rundown government hospital in Bunia, a dusty town in Congo's northeast. Her son Jonathan, 2, was propped up on a tangled wad of clothes atop a rusting bed; he hadn't moved his limbs or spoken for weeks. Live had already endured a lifetime of sorrow. She lost two children to treatable illnesses. Her sister, her father and an aunt were all murdered in attacks by one of the ethnic militias that terrorize this corner of Congo. Doctors at the hospital determined that Jonathan had meningitis, a life-threatening but treatable inflammation of the lining around...
...Baghdad ER's" film makers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill spent two months in Baghdad's Green Zone where the 86th CSH was located. Through the film, the camera pans from moments of levity to moments of sorrow; from a surgeon cracking a joke while stitching entrails together in the operating room to a wounded soldier confiding in his friend that he can't close his eyes without seeing the missing face of their Humvee driver killed in an explosion earlier that...
...remorseless testimony, Moussaoui presented himself as a hideous and dangerous character, eager to kill, indifferent to the sorrow his co-conspirators had unleashed. But let reason and logic now interrupt us. He also appeared sufficiently crazy that, apart from an insanity exemption, you can easily conclude that he was an extra in the plot, a B player who was not smart or steady enough to have been trusted with a central role. The government argued that Moussaoui had information that could have prevented the attacks if he had told interrogators the truth; he has since admitted that he wanted...
...this is a war of ideas we are fighting, between a free country governed by the rule of law and a radical Islamist enemy, then a pageant of vengeance, of punishment based more on sorrow and fury than logic and evidence, does not honor the memory of those lost in this battle. One victim?s mother said she hoped he would not get the death penalty, to "demonstrate that we are a nation of mercy." And for those still looking for vengeance as well as justice, it is worth asking: If Moussaoui dreamed of martyrdom in a suicide attack...