They were all crying having just seen on television the haunting images of the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami.

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It's hard to say how you would react until you live through such a tragedy, but as I talked to residents here, I kept thinking that I probably would want to get away from this place -- from the haunting images of destruction.

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And although you'll hear sometimes from some commentators that the opposition has engaged in violence as well, and obviously there's evidence of that, I think it's also fair to say that those haunting images that we saw in places like Hom were the direct result of decisions made by the Syrian government and ultimately Mr. Assad is responsible.

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The haunting, soft-focus images indistinct faces, figures, and landscapes that Jacobson made in the late eighties and early nineties, in response to the devastation of AIDS, have evolved over time from emblems of loss to repositories of memory.

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The humor is so delectable, the images are so powerful, and darkly beautiful, and the music provides such a haunting counterpoint, that I'd love to describe the whole experience in minute detail.

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