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...often you hear Supreme Court Justices treat their brethren with such scorn, or trash a recent decision as being dead wrong--or see lawyers weep as a ruling is read. But Thursday was an emotional day inside and outside the court, as preachers prayed and scholars marveled and gay-rights activists struggled to find the right words, since they were more used to slamming the court than saluting...
Fortunately, there was no need to reassure the population with such sophisticated calculations. People did not weep at the humiliating news that our genome has only about twice as many genes as a worm's. Nothing had been hung on the number 100,000, which was just a bad guess...
...wipe out all Acehnese people," he replied simply. Meanwhile, bereaved villagers in Peusangan are developing strategies of their own to deal with the unfolding horror. Clutching her prayer book, Ramla, the grieving mother of 18-year-old Khairurrazi, explained: "We pray, the whole family together. We pray until we weep...
...want to go back to that level of commitment where writing takes over my life for years," he says. "And I'd hate to write with less dedication." In Timoleon Vieta Come Home, at least, he manages to conjure for Cockcroft a happy ending of sorts. Yet readers will weep instead for the fate of poor Timoleon Vieta, the most faithful and devoted lover of all the characters in the book, whose reward when he gets home is ... well, it shouldn't happen to a dog. Like Aurora's grandmother, Rhodes understands the subversive power of the simple tale, well...
When President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein and his two sons 48 hours to leave Iraq last week, Uday, the firstborn, delivered the family's riposte. Iraqi forces, he warned, would make the mothers of U.S. soldiers "weep blood instead of tears." The tall, bearded Uday, 39, has long been a braggart--not to mention a libertine and a brute. He squandered his inherited power to sate a boundless avarice, smuggling everything from booze to baby milk to oil. His avocational sadism and sexual deviance are the stuff of Iraqi legend. "In his eyes," recalls a former colleague...