Nation: Anger and Frustration

A flurry of secret messages on the hostages in Iran leads nowhere

Christ the Lord is risen today: Alleluia! Sons of men and angels say: Alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high: Alleluia! Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply: Alleluia!

In churches across the country, millions of Americans joined in this traditional hymn and others like it on Easter Sunday. They sang of spiritual rebirth, of renewed hope, of joy in the season. But this was an unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a...

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