Word: sutherland
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Anderson credited his friends and his stubbornness and his faith, as practiced in their private sanctuary, the Church of the Locked Door. Thomas Sutherland taught him French; he taught the others the sign alphabet for the deaf so they could communicate when they were not allowed to speak. It was Anderson who made the tinfoil chess pieces, the Scrabble games, the Monopoly set. In a sense, as the longest held and best known, Anderson had become a symbol for all the captives, for the 17 Americans who were taken -- the three who died, the 13 others who have retrieved their...
...performances by American educator Thomas Sutherland and British church envoy Terry Waite as they emerged last week from years of captivity testified to the remarkable resiliency of the human spirit. Sutherland, 60, who spent most of his 2,347 days as a hostage in Lebanon tethered by ankle chains to a wall, calmly alternated tales of senseless beatings and profound depression with lighthearted quips about Waite, who, he reported, "snores awfully loudly." Waite, 52, limping from his years in chains, reported, "I was kept in total and complete isolation for four years." Yet 1,763 days in windowless cells neither...
...Sutherland, it was a bittersweet homecoming. Even as he learned that his 88-year-old father-in-law had died just two days earlier, he received word that one of his three daughters was about to give birth. Sutherland seemed forgiving of his captors, allowing, "I don't think they really thoroughly understand what they were doing to us, putting those chains back on our legs every day." Although he appeared healthy, the discovery of an ulcer at week's end delayed his return...
...overcrowded; Santa Fe is commercialized; when a mogul or a movie star wants to enjoy untainted American spaces, what's left? Try Montana. For members of the names-in-bold-print set, from Ted Turner to Tom Brokaw, from Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan to Mel Gibson and Kiefer Sutherland, from Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen to Oakland A's owner Walter Haas, the Big Sky State has become the hottest of hideaways. Says Russ Francis, a former San Francisco 49er football star who recently joined the rush to Big Sky Country: "This is the last best place in America...
Some time after that, Waite was allowed to join McCarthy, Anderson and Sutherland. "We had to work very hard between us to keep our spirits up," McCarthy said last week. "We have done that very well, I think. The men I was with -- Terry Waite, Terry Anderson and Thomas Sutherland -- were all very strong men. They supported me, and I hope I've supported them...