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Memories - with their power to seduce, to reinvent, to torment - are what fuel A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernières's quiet yet moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale of love and loss in which the protagonists embody the profound but fragile relationships strangers can build and the pain of intimacy corrupted. "A previous draft was about sexual obsession, and it left a rather bad taste in the mouth," says De Bernières, who grew up in Surrey...
...allows families and doctors of terminal patients to withhold life-sustaining treatment, but in no way permits active measures to provoke death. Sebire and her backers retort that preventing her from getting medical assistance to end her life swiftly and painlessly ensures months or years of additional torment from pain. Her death will come, they say, after a long coma that will reduce her to being nothing but an inanimate burden on her family...
...other things of which I may be unaware. When a cursory search of Facebook revealed over 500 separate awareness events in the coming week alone, I was reduced to a quivering wreck. I had no idea about Canadian Landmines or International Plankton. Ignorance had been bliss. Awareness was torment. I nearly sent Undergraduate Council President Matt L. Sundquist ’09 a detailed letter about my mental state. Until last week, I hadn’t been aware I could do that. I guess we are making progress...
...excruciating headaches that had accompanied him home. For five months, he made the rounds of Army medical personnel, who couldn't cure a pain that grew steadily worse. Unable to make room for him in a pain-management clinic, the Army increasingly plied him with drugs to dull the torment...
...Crimson continued to torment the Golden Knights’ defense until the very end of the second period. With only 0.2 seconds left on the clock, junior forward Sarah Wilson received a pass from Vaillancourt before firing the puck into the back of the net to give Harvard a two-goal advantage...