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...called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must be ready to die for Ireland. Next morn, as oft as not, he would be too groggy for work. And thus was another job lost...
After receiving a standing ovation, Jen wept in her seat...
...traffic accidents, one killing a well-known high school student and the other a grade school child. When a vigil for the dead French club members took place on Thursday night in the school gym, 2,100 weary souls, a little less than half the town, showed up and wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker, the Rev. Jerry Uppling, began his invocation with Psalm 22: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
...utilitarians who valued ideas and people on the basis of their usefulness. But whereas John Kennedy seemed to be wholly without sentimentality, Nixon seemed plagued by it. When Kennedy nearly died of complications from back surgery in 1954 and was given the last rites of the Catholic Church, Nixon wept in Kennedy's office. Years later, in his condolence letter to Jackie after the assassination, Nixon pointedly (and pathetically) mentioned how grateful he had been to have been invited to their wedding. In later life Nixon appears to have regarded all Kennedys as having been placed on earth to torment...
...instance, as would be expected from any devoted widower, O.J. has visited Nicole's grave since his release. However, the top secret photos taken by the National Enquirer at the time of the visit show that O.J. neither brought flowers nor wept. No doubt the folks at the Enquirer are continuing to exploit this case just as much as every other publication, but they might just be onto something...