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...album’s liner notes, which read like a script. Byrne moves his heroine from impoverished, frustrated young love on “The Rose of Tacloban,” to confidence in her femininity on “Men Will Do Anything,” to a tragic realization that she has gone unappreciated on “Why Don’t You Love Me.” It’s a strong, sure-handed plot that moves as though Byrne is completely oblivious to the difficulty of sympathising with Marcos. For those who don?...
...Child in Time This 1987 novel features mind-bending discussions of quantum physics and the nature of time, circling around the tragic disappearance of a 3-year-old girl
Talking to voters in the last election cycle, our members heard tragic stories about the damage caused by a broken system. From New Hampshire to Florida, from Pennsylvania to Colorado, we met Americans of all ages who didn’t have health insurance, or who couldn’t afford the coverage they had. There were too many mothers who feared that their child’s medical condition would force them into bankruptcy. There were too many fathers who worried about what would happen to their coverage when they lost their job in a failing economy. And there...
...might work, although Banda Aceh's tragic history remains more of a draw. Unlike Phuket, where the tsunami also struck, Aceh is not simply repairing a tourism infrastructure. It is building one from scratch and tsunami tours are proving popular - particularly in the domestic market. A fifth of Banda Aceh's population was wiped out on Dec. 26, 2004. Today, any trip to the city is incomplete without a visit to a ship heaved a mile inland and stranded amid the houses. On its top deck I meet Tisul Himat, 43, a trader from an island on Aceh's west...
...have to deal with the reality that the bill did not represent "Armageddon," as their overwrought House leader, John Boehner, claimed - that, in fact, it won't have much short-term impact at all and that in the long term, the impact is more likely to be benign than tragic...