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Chaminade High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Mineola, N. Y., on Long Island, bore a bigger burden than most, losing 62 family members, friends and alumni in the tragedy. But its religious moorings gave teachers a language with which to talk about grief. Students prayed for the victims at the beginning of each class and in their Monday-afternoon prayer clubs. The optional lunchtime prayer service was standing-room only, with some lingering long afterward. But grieving students mostly huddled in private conversations with their teachers. At this sturdy school, where even adolescents with braces are called "Chaminade...
Yesterday, Yom Kippur services were held across campus—Reform Jews congregated at Memorial Church while Conservative services were held at Hillel, and Orthodox Jews gathered to observe the holiday at Burden Hall at the Business School...
Rita Hamad ’03, representing the Society of Arab Students, also spoke of the double burden that Arab students have had to bear in grieving with the rest of the nation about the attacks because they have also had to deal with others’ suspicion...
Bush's father had the same people around him during Desert Storm, but he bore the solitary burden of a President at war. On Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, after the President delivered his homily, Bush senior reached over to squeeze his son's hand, his eyes not looking at him but raised toward the heavens. Like few others, he knows that the President...
...West Bank for no extreme reprisals to take place. Many of us writing about this area had warned of the terrible dangers, the uncontrollable anger that was being unleashed for many years. But now surely everyone has lost. If this was done in the name of Palestinians, surely their burden which was very heavy yesterday is even more intolerable today. If it was done in the name of some weird interpretation of Islam, all Islamic states, including the shadowy figures of the Taliban, have condemned it. Some groups may be shedding crocodile tears but the sense of shame and disgust...