Word: stricken
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...exploits were described in the Washington Post. "I hope she blew them all away," one told me, her surging sense of pride and solidarity trumping her lifelong abhorrence of firearms. (So much for the M-16 as phallic symbol.) The other hero in Lynch's story, the conscience-stricken Iraqi lawyer who walked miles back and forth across a battle zone to help the army plot her rescue, confounds the biggest preconception of all: monolithic Islamic anti-Americanism. Not only don't they all hate us, they're not a "they," it seems, and perhaps we're becoming less...
...kind of film that makes the Chinese authorities squirm. It follows the physical, mental and social disintegration of the Ma family, in which both parents and two of three children contracted HIV. In one scene, the Mas' infant son crawls beneath the splintered wheelbarrow where his AIDS-stricken mother lies dying, her moans of pain mingling with his gurgling attempts at language. Such unexpected images are jarring in a country where censors aim never to show China's ugly side. Yet, even though "underground" films are banned on the mainland, they are being made. The state media is even unwittingly...
...delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America, it revived memories of the killings of Kennedy's brother John and of Martin Luther King Jr. and shattered the dreams of those yearning for a return to Camelot. --By Daren Fonda
...call. The police have found her father knocking on strangers' doors at 3 in the morning. A quiet, spiritual man, he had been a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, but within months he was barely keeping it together in a nursing home. Miller notes his cerebral short circuits with stricken fascination. He began to mistake his shadow for "a strange black animal dogging him," and he could find only the food on the right side of his plate. Miller, the author of several best-selling novels, including The Good Mother and While I Was Gone, manages to spot the rare...
...believed to be the first link in the chain leading to most of the territory's 200-plus infections. With so many cases concentrated in Hong Kong, travel agents are reporting a slew of cancellations by tourists who had been planning to travel to the territory. Other stricken nations are also running scared: many students in Vietnam are staying home from school because parents are fearful of exposing them to the disease...