Word: weeps
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...easier not to ask too many questions about pedophilia. The questions make you blush; some of the answers make your skin crawl. But it seems that almost daily we see another grown man tell his story and weep, suddenly becoming the terrified kid he once was. All the revelations, all spilling out at once, have created a fog: Why are there so many people who want to molest children? How can we stop them? Are we overreacting...
...clubhouse, publishing houses shuddered. So did anybody who thought it was a good thing that she had made Joyce Carol Oates seem as big as "The Rock." Jane Friedman, CEO of HarperCollins, got a stricken e-mail. "One of my colleagues had written to me one word: WEEP...
...when it comes to political will, he writes. The readiness of Palestinian militants to die in order to inflict pain is mirrored in growing doubts among Israelis over the purpose of putting their own troops in harm's way in the West Bank and Gaza. "Every day Israeli soldiers weep over their dead comrades," says Van Creveld. "Every day the parents of Palestinian suicide bombers proudly display their children's pictures and funerals of dead fighters bring out thousands who scream for revenge." And that, he says, creates a fundamental weakness on the Israeli side, one familiar to the Soviets...
...will reply that budgets are tight. Ask the British, and they will bleat that they have this terrific new "Marshall Plan" to reduce poverty but that Washington will not endorse it. Ask Europeans to open their markets to farm products from the developing world, and they will make you weep with tales of the miseries their own farmers endure...
There is a time to weep, a season to mourn. But there is not supposed to be a second time to do it again from the beginning. Last Tuesday night, about 100 alumni of grief filed into the Oakwood Baptist Church in Walker County, Ga. Clutching candles and tissues, they were forced to revisit the rituals of death. This time they prayed not for the souls of the dead but for the bodies--the 298 (and counting) men, women and at least one infant strewn about the landscape of a remote northwest Georgia crematory...