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Nancy Cruzan, now 32, has done nothing for the past seven years. She has not hugged her mother or gazed out the window or played with her nieces. She has neither laughed nor wept, her parents say, nor spoken a word. Since her car crashed on an icy night, she has lain so still for so long that her hands have curled into claws; nurses wedge napkins under her fingers to prevent the nails from piercing her wrists. "She would hate being like this," says her mother Joyce. "It took a long time to accept she wasn't getting better...
...left, I wept...
...sweet of Justice Kennedy to say gays can now "enter upon [a] relationship in the confines of their homes ... and still retain their dignity as free persons." Apparently, gay-activist lawyers wept in court upon hearing this. But they should know that dignity is not the court's to give. Gays have found their own dignity through decades of refusing to hide. For the court to come around, at this late date, to acknowledging our existence as "free persons" is shockingly patronizing; it's condescension that has been cast as liberation. I'm glad those two Texas fellas can freely...
...even that was enough to stagger the hardened bunch: some of the inmates actually wept. "It propelled them so far outside of where they are, they didn't have words to describe it," says Marymount College astronomy professor Bob Berman, who teaches the prison course. By the end of the class, even some of the guards were peering through the telescope...
There were hundreds of them, perhaps a thousand. They wept and knelt before me on the ground, crying, "Please help us, the communists are coming." I had hiked four days to reach this forsaken place deep in the jungles of Xaysomboune, northern Laos. The Hmong rebels prostrate before me were convinced they would all soon die. They knew they were a forgotten tribe, crushed by a military campaign that is denied by the communist leaders of their small, sheltered nation...