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WHEN WE drove onto the grounds of the Thanh Hoa Hospital compound, there were dozens of people at work building new structures amidst the rubble left from the recent U.S. air strike. At the same time, they were also constructing bomb shelters...
...Haydon, who had been trailing Baughman for most of the later stages of the race, pulled ahead, but Baughman hung on and came back in the final lap to touch Haydon out amidst some atypical top-of-the-lungs screaming from the Harvard crowd. "Hell, I wasn't going to let him get me after I had been leading the whole race," Baughman said afterwards...
...first thing I noticed there was a lucite bubble. It sits in front of the entrance amidst a concrete slab, and stares blindly--a blank white eye--out at Mass. Ave, traffic. I asked what it was there for. A man next to the door said he wasn't sure--just a mixture of art and architecture, he said...
...difficult enough to withstand the pressures of constant conflict, amidst the daily worry, the threats, and the rumors, even when there is a faint glimmer of peace in distant sight. Israel has learned to adjust itself to the situation. Yet it is quite another matter and unbearable beyond quite another matter and unbearable beyond belief to face the prospect of war without end for this generation and for generations to come; to accept as a fact and state of nature that in order to survive, a country can never put down its guns, but rather must raise its children from...
...affair, the motif of the Harvard Man, of intelligence delivered in the service of power. Ellsberg stepped forward and removed himself from the past; while not absolving himself of guilt, he at least has attempted repentence. It is better that he should self-consciously but actively atone than atrophy amidst his own regrets...