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...most?" What amazes me is that almost every person whom I talk to asks me a question that turns my stomach: "how does your ex-husband feel about your writing this book?" And I will tell you, if I had been raped twenty years ago by a stranger and decided that in order to heal, I had to write about it, no one would ask me why I had come forward. A lot of people told me to publish Crazy Love anonymously. If I did, I would be saying I am ashamed. Society promulgates the notion that victims should feel...
...much he later recorded his own version with Oldham on backup) toward more polished studio trimmings. But in pulling in all the extra instruments (marimba, flute, tenor saxophone, and accordian, to name a few) it loses something of the stark devastation that gave voice to America’s stranger corners of existence. The album’s title should in the end serve as a warning to Oldham himself—amidst all the banjos and choirs, the warm shadowy spaces between the words may be lost...
...future event (a blind date, say) are usually wildly off the mark, and that the most reliable measure of their future response seems to be that of someone who has already experienced the event - rather than any actual information about the event itself - even if that person is a stranger...
There is an old Arabic proverb: "My brother and I against my cousin, but my cousin and I against the stranger." It didn't hold true in Iraq for long. Three years after the 2003 U.S. invasion, Sunni brothers and their Shi'ite cousins were slaughtering one another while also fighting against the American stranger. The U.S. is now winding down its mission and preparing to withdraw, but has Iraq's family feud been settled...
...speaks, if he says he has reconciled with another or with the government, his word is law, and all members of that tribe fall in line. That's why al-Maliki is reaching out to them in a bid to foster national reconciliation. The hope is that when the stranger leaves, Iraq's brothers and cousins will resolve their family feuds the old-fashioned way, through dialogue and deference. The potential is there, but so many questions remain to be answered...