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Elsewhere, the Palestinian lawyer and author Raj'a Shehade refines this sullen fatalism as sumud, a word he uses to express his determination to endure and outwait Israel: "Of the two ways open to me as a Palestinian -- to surrender to the occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity -- I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home becomes my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return...
Calling themselves the shabab, an Arabic word loosely translated as the "guys," this embittered, sullen generation has taken to the streets of the occupied territories spoiling for trouble. "We are a pot full of steam, and pressure must explode," says Mahmoud Hamaid, 32, one of the shabab, whose 22-year-old brother Khalid was killed in the rioting. "You can't decide when this explosion will take place. It is always there...
...most accounts, the government was genuinely shocked by the defeat. Jaruzelski, who had campaigned vigorously for approval, maintained a sullen silence. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, by contrast, sought to put the brightest possible face on the vote's outcome. The authorities had "wanted to know the true opinion of the population, an opinion expressed freely," he said, and they professed "satisfaction" with the results...
During the performances at more than 260 prisons -- whose payments for the most part support the group -- the Geese have faced threats of violence and sullen silence. But the challenge in the rehearsal room at the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater is daringly new: to use the tools of theater to break through to the feelings of the sexual deviant. The twelve inmates in the cast, like the 243 other occupants of the maximum-security facility, are serving indeterminate terms for crimes ranging from rape to child molestation...
...decade ago, the adjectives most often used to describe Quebec were angry, sullen or depressed. Now writers seeking to characterize Canada's French- speaking province are more likely to use such words as vibrant, self- assured and confident. With good reason. Back in the 1970s, Quebec was a troubled and troubling region, riven by internal frictions, feuding with Ottawa's federal government and openly threatening to secede from the country. Political turmoil was aggravated by economic crisis, as nationalism among the 80% of Quebecers whose first language is French drove out many English- speaking businesses and helped boost the unemployment...