Word: forgottenness
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...Miami relatives with whom Elian is staying, desperate to win over the national sentiment that has been against them since this drama began, let ABC's Diane Sawyer interview the boy. At one point, the cameras captured him shyly wondering whether his mother was still alive and had forgotten about him. That, says a child psychiatrist who had been approached earlier by the Miami relatives to evaluate Elian, indicated that the boy "has not...started the grieving process...
Prosecutors across the U.S. are sending thousands of criminals for anger-management instruction each year. District attorneys offer the classes mostly to first-time offenders like Lou, folks who seem to have forgotten how to take a time-out. There are no solid figures on how popular the courses have become, but six were given last month just for those in the New York City criminal-justice system--roughly double the number for the same period last year. (Each class has about 20 students.) Several other courses were held throughout the city by therapists and the new breed of anger...
...course, there will be teething troubles--literally. Or somebody might have forgotten to cut out the songbird's voice genes, so the first struth chirps like a sparrow. Or maybe the brain development did not quite hang together and the creature is born incapable of normal movement. As this suggests, the first such experiment will almost certainly produce a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, and the whole idea may well therefore be cruel and unethical, in which case, let us hope it never happens. But that is not the same as saying it will be impossible...
...echoed the American Jewish Congress's Phil Baum, who admitted that "it was perhaps wishful thinking that the Pope would explicitly apologize in his visit to Yad Vashem today for the silence of Pope Pius XII and the institutional church during the Holocaust." Baum added that "it is sometimes forgotten that the Vatican bears no direct responsibility for the Holocaust." Although the church had been "cruelly delinquent" in its response to the horror, "that moral failure, at least, the Pope's words today have done much to remedy." Perhaps most important, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, whose voice cracked...
...they will tell us. Thank you, we will say. You are stupid, they will tell us. Thank you, we will say. Everything you hold dear is worthless, everything you think important is trivial, everything you remember is forgotten, they will tell us. Shut up, shut up, shut up, we will say. But deep in our hearts we will know they are right...