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...proposed that the memorial selection process be suspended, to allow more time for the meaning of 9/11 to clarify. Though he has no real power in the matter, he's right. The best design might indeed turn out to be built around two profound holes, grave sites filled with calm waters. But should we try to arrive at that design in the midst of a war that we are still fighting? The meanings of that day--who can even name them all? Before we choose how to embody those meanings, what we need is more time to learn them...
...coaches spared Ma Lin, who is?not coincidentally?the world's best player, and Wang Hao, No. 3 in the world. (China didn't want to lose them in advance of the Athens Olympics this summer.) Team coach Cai Zhenhua says the excommunicated players will have "free time to calm down and reflect upon their actions"?and suggested they could one day be rehabilitated...
...having with the mental health of our undergraduates struck me as reaching such serious proportions that I felt I wanted to share it with you,” Pertile wrote in his original e-mail to Summers. “The trouble that is brewing under the apparently calm surface is a cause for concern...
...tempting to see Rumsfeld as an emblem of war itself, like Achilles or Ajax, lost in the calm, found in the fray. He is always fighting, always feinting, ever in conflict with something or someone or some idea. He's that way even when there's not much to fight about. Literal to a fault, Rumsfeld can spend a morning tangling over the interpretation of a poorly chosen word. He goes through periods when he takes on even friendly Senators and Representatives for sport. Devoted to trifocals, he seems to prefer to see things in conflict. You sometimes...
...kindergarten and first grade, but the behavior of a 6-year-old girl this fall at a school in Fort Worth, Texas, had even the most experienced staff members wanting to run for cover. Asked to put a toy away, the youngster began to scream. Told to calm down, she knocked over her desk and crawled under the teacher's desk, kicking it and dumping out the contents of the drawers. Then things really began to deteriorate. Still shrieking, the child stood up and began hurling books at her terrified classmates, who had to be ushered from the room...