Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Lovers Die, Lovers Lost, and Hope Lives On

Three interesting articles that caught my eye and touched my heart today:

Esposito's stunned aunts said the 24-year-old didn't normally sleep in the dorm. He had gone there Sunday night, though, to comfort Angela, 23. She had been frightened by several smaller earthquakes that had preceded the 6.3-magnitude temblor that partially collapsed the building, they said.


He dreamed too big, ran too hard. Now Guillaume Mercier must find his way back to a smaller life. So his stone-and-timber castle on Garth Street is for sale.


I think that any woman who speaks out about intimate partner violence, in a world where such violence is still so heavily stigmatized and regularly blamed on women, is immensely brave. I think this is especially the case when the woman in question is a powerful head of state — and not even past, but present — and likely to be even more heavily criticized as a result.

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