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It’s nice that people call Anthony Shadid a poet, but poets can write around the holes in a story. Anthony was first and foremost a witness — an incomparable, reliable witness. Empathy was the key to his ability to get under the skin of complicated societies and do them justice. Any death in the family is a great sadness. This one is a ton of heartbreak. http://nyti.ms/xh5wPz