In the blast-oven heat that stifled much of the nation in recent days, the absence of air conditioning felt anguishing.

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But being away from your children in that environment is uniquely anguishing.

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"I would say yes, this is an anguishing time and some of these issues are deeply troubling, " said the school's president, Jamshed Bharucha.

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As anguishing as are the stories recounted by the former slaves, troubling in a different way was the methodology many of the interviewers chose in committing the stories to written form.

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It's anguishing to see his indifference to the son who needs him desperately, but anguish is far outweighed by the rewards of watching a story in which bonds of trust are severed, only to be replaced by new ones.

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