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Hawi, a Christian from Mount Lebanon turned big-city academic whose often political poetry had once made him an Arab nationalist hero, despaired over the wider Arab world's abandonment of his beloved Lebanon.
We all hear about today's increases in neglect, abuse and abandonment of those who can't fight back: children.
What sounds to the untrained ear like a baby wailing in desperate protest of abandonment is described by Ferber as a child "learning the new associations."
Girls play this game in Mexico also, with a boy as the center player, which Inez Cardozo-Freeman interprets as a portrayal of betrayal and abandonment preparing little girls for marriage.
The Independent called the U.N. decision to pull its current mission out of East Timor "a grand Pontius Pilate-style washing of hands" and "a treacherous abandonment for the Timorese people."