Word: sorrowfulness
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...them? Or are there so few because our leaders know we will get to know each one by name and can only bear so much? Pollsters chart a growing acceptance of risk. But mercifully we have not reached the threshold, tested how much we can feel sorrow without feeling despair, and we accept that lives may be lost--so long as they aren't wasted...
...history. But birth and knowledge alone do not a citizen make. It often takes some great communal happening to make one feel truly connected to one's heritage and place. Every now and then an event marks the time for us with striking clarity. No matter how much sorrow lingers for the nation and the world after Sept. 11, no matter what fears we will have to accept, no matter how much anger we harbor, we're all in this together now. Isn't that what makes a nation? CHRISTOPHER KERNS Rockville...
...recording information from restricted military bases. British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of the detainees amid concern about the conditions in which they were being held. But authorities said the group had been warned three times before their arrest and would still face serious charges. ISRAEL More Sorrow As U.S. mediators prepared to lead new peace talks, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teen at a funeral for five boys killed in an explosion outside a Gaza refugee camp. Palestinian officials blamed that blast on a booby trap placed to protect a nearby Jewish settlement. A missile strike...
...said: "My baby died while I was giving him milk. He was killed by a flying piece of metal while he was in my arms taking my milk." She began to cry, and her sobs were muffled by the veil. Then she began to shake, an evergreen bundle of sorrow in the back of the tent...
...been lost, reminding the listener that, “love will not part us, we will meet again.” Fleming’s selection was poignant, and was sung with the lilting beauty of a mature love. There was a note of sweetness, too, in this sorrow song, a healing recognition of the love one has had, and will have again...