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...mothers who have wept when their babies left for college, and who weep each time their babies return. To fathers who greet us with a gruff handshake, little siblings who meet us with incessant questions and pets that welcome us with a wet, sloppy kiss. Thank...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Thoughts Before Turkey Dinner | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...Weep quietly. Retreat from venue...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Absurdity in Annenberg | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...Kingdom of Heaven has precedence over the rulers of the Middle Kingdom. Peter Xu Yongze, an underground Protestant minister, has been arrested three times for suggesting that God might be more enduring than the state. (His other transgressions include pushing a kind of Christianity that requires new converts to weep for three straight days as a way to cleanse themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Search For Its Soul | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Dark Wind, a heartbreaking, infuriating book, draws its narrative power from the reader's ambivalence about whether to weep with Chaplin or break his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captains Courageous | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Watching TV interviews at J.F.K.'s grave site in Arlington National Cemetery and outside John's apartment in New York City, I was struck by the derisive note of the commentary: "Who are they to grieve? They didn't know him." Yes, we should weep, and we should grieve, for our country has lost its finest son; it is our turn to salute. JEAN MAXWELL Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1999 | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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