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Last Thursday, I watched an Israeli soldier harass a Palestinian woman as she struggled desperately to cross a “checkpoint” to bring her sick baby to the hospital. The woman wept and pleaded, but the stolid soldier would not acquiesce. Oddly enough, I did not witness this encounter in the West Bank or Gaza. I watched this disturbing scene unfold in Harvard Square...
...listener cannot help but feel that Walsh’s words are inextricably tied up with his personal experience. Middle-class angst is apparent in songs like “Talk Her Down,” “Alcoholic” and “She Just Wept,” with lines like “Daddy I’ve got nothing left/ My life is good/ My love’s a mess...
After 22 years of war, there is little that can make a grown Afghan cry. But mention Ahmed Shah Massoud and the most battle-hardened Northern Alliance mujahedin will tell you he wept on Sept. 9, the day two al-Qaeda agents posing as journalists assassinated the rebel leader in a suicide bomb attack. In death, Massoud has become even more iconic than in life. His picture hangs in shop windows across the northern Afghan capital of Mazar-i-Sharif and is pasted in the windshields of Alliance pickups and jeeps. Along every street those calm, hooded eyes gaze...
...organizing two Latin American tournaments in New York, from which it expected to earn the majority of its revenue. The teams decided the risk of being in the Big Apple was too great. The day Schramm sat down with his advisers and looked at his company's numbers, he wept. "My business is in shambles. It's very demoralizing to be 48 years old and have a nine-year-old company that's so suddenly in crisis," he says. But he is resolute. "I see myself as having no other choice than to pick myself up, dust myself...
Five years ago, I probably would have wept at the very thought of conversing with that goddess of the teenage girl’s pantheon...