The article noted that some liberal activists had hoped that the extraordinary suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina might lead to a genuine effort by the administration and Congress to address such important poverty-related matters as health care, housing, employment and race.

The rebels are viewed by many Latin leaders as an anachronism of a failed United States policy that has caused extraordinary suffering in the region.

It is also the story of the parallel battle to maintain sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering.

It seemed universally taken for granted that a writer should want to pretend to a history of extraordinary suffering, that fantasies passed off as true should be fantasies of crime and pain rather than of achievement or happiness.

In Iran, a vast cemetery just outside the capital serves as a chilling monument to the extraordinary suffering inflicted by the war, and it calls particular attention to Iraq's use of poison gas against Iranian troops.

In writing this wrenching memoir of extraordinary suffering, resistance and endurance, he has testified not only to the pain of countless individuals but to the devastation of a nation.

EVAN OSNOS: This is always a thorny issue: Is there a point when it is appropriate to look beyond the extraordinary suffering of the moment?

Such laws are clearly indicated in Afghanistan and could be viewed in part as reparations for the extraordinary suffering inflicted on women by the Taliban.

It will incorporate ghastly, graphic examples of extraordinary suffering.

A Question of Direction Dr. Fletcher said he sees no reason to restrict experiments in plants or animals unless the research is not meritorious or it involves extraordinary suffering.