Word: coffining
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...over the Crimson for quite some time, using the Harvard squad as stepping stone to high Ivy standing each year. Well, it's on hand again to top off the Harvard schedule, or, if you're of another school of mind, to drive the last two nails in the coffin of Harvard hopes...
...group of clergymen, led by Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., has suggested a strange linkage between Calley and the young Americans who evaded the draft-a "new jubilee" in which amnesty would be extended to both Calley and draft resisters, in which all would be forgiven, regardless of individual guilt or degree of turpitude...
...that it is unjust for Calley to be the only man imprisoned for the My Lai affair. True, one may wish that clemency eventually be shown to the draft evaders. One may wish, in addition, that both the righteous right and the righteous left soften their positions. Yet the Coffin proposal smacks as much of an ill-considered trade-off as it does of Christian forgiveness. The two situations are really unrelated, both legally and morally. Each therefore deserves to be judged on its own merits, not as part of a jubilee...
...Crimson, led by McLaughlin, attempted to come from behind in the closing minutes and managed to narrow the Eli lead to eight, with four minutes remaining. The Yale's Bruce McKenna dumped in two quick buckets to nail shut the Crimson coffin...
After a brief ceremony, the coffin was carried to a hearse for the clanging procession to the cemetery. At the tomb, food was placed on the coffin, in accordance with Buddhist ritual, to sustain the soul on its otherworld journey. During the graveside ceremony, the audible and visible anguish of the family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor...