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Many of the mourners gathered on the steps of Memorial Church said they were struck by the diversity and support they saw in the crowd. “We all have our differences, but what ultimately comes down from this is that we must move forward as humans,” said Harvard Dharma co-President Ameya A. Velingker ’10, who also read a poem in Hindi during the vigil. “We are first part of humanity, not Muslims, Hindus, Indians, Pakistanis. I think that’s what this highlighted...
Seth A. Pearce ’12, a Jewish student who watched from the crowd, stayed afterwards to talk with fellow mourners. “It’s an astonishingly beautiful thing to see so many people come together and to hear so many songs,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that it takes a situation like this to bring us together, but in a way it’s all we know...
...year later, Mike Huckabee is still looking for the woman who handed him her wedding ring at a Michigan campaign rally. "I don't have any money," he remembers her saying before she dissolved back into the crowd. For the former Arkansas governor, the gesture symbolized his remarkable campaign: a validation of the idea that anyone can be President, even a Baptist pastor with crooked teeth, no personal fortune but an amazing ability to communicate. His sixth book is part memoir and part political treatise, full of policy proposals, like a national sales tax, and harsh words for foes, including...
...rush hour, Mumbaikers pour in and out of the train station in tidal waves. Bodies press against each other so closely that you could almost be borne along by the force of the crowd. There are metal detectors in the doorways, clumsy things made out of boards. No one seems to be watching them. Inside, bored police officers wait behind folding tables...
...Last Wednesday night, gunmen pushed their way into the train station and started firing “indiscriminately,” as the newspapers wrote. Envisioning it, I remind myself that the shooting started after 9:20 at night. The crowd would have thinned by then, I tell myself. The crush in the moments after the firing would have been less terrifying than at six or five...