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James Carroll

Sigh for America

By James Carroll
January 22, 2007

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"THE PASS of the Moor's Sigh" is the place on the outskirts of a city in Spain where its last Moorish ruler, upon being expelled from Iberia, stopped to weep. His companion rebuked him, as the writer Robert Grudin recounts , for waiting until all was lost to express his feeling. Why did he not manifest his devotion to his ... (Full article: 757 words)

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