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...York last week was a city double struck by tragedy, and its fear and grief were distilled in the story of the Gullicksons. During the long, sleepless nights, Naoemi says, she wonders what are the odds of life being so cruel to one family. Losing her husband, she thought, was more than she could bear. But then came her father's doomed flight, and the gaping hole in her life was blasted wider. "I never thought I could feel worse," the 38-year-old widow says. "But Jo would have helped me get through my father's death. I miss...
...terrorists had attacked after the Bush administration issued those ambiguous October warnings—no matter how they struck, or where—the administration would have been able to say it had foreseen the threat. As all interpreters of Nostradamus worth their salt know, the advantage of vague yet dire prophecy is that it may be interpreted to describe almost anything that occurs after the prophecy is issued...
...Visitors to the MCA will be immediately struck, not by darkness but by an explosion of Day-Glo pop. Kenji Yanobe's bubble-blowing Astro Boy wall sculpture, Myeong-eun Shin's floor of 400 plastic pink poodles, and Satoshi Hirose's room of 5,000 fragrant lemons seem to celebrate Japan's ongoing culture of kawaii (cute). But like a sugar-coated almond, "NEO-TOKYO" leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste...
...Associate Professor of Government Eva Bellin, for her mentioning an accusation that the Palestinian Authority sanctions anti-Semitic propaganda in its textbooks and media. How could the Palestinians, themselves “Semites,” be anti-Semitic, Rabbo asked rhetorically. This accusation, Rabbo complained, “struck at my heart,” because the Palestinians and the Jews “are cousins.” This response, of course, simply obfuscates the very serious accusation with a neither new nor interesting linguistic fallacy...
...minute and 22 seconds later, Stephens struck again when she took a pass from the behind the net and stuffed it past Ruddock to knot the score at two with 2:45 remaining in the game...