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Standing brazenly among the honored guests, personifying the very tragedy ^ Wiesel condemned, was Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. His Croat brethren had just begun a vicious onslaught of "ethnic cleansing" in western Bosnia, burning villages and villagers in one of the cruelest campaigns of the war. "Whole valleys of people have been massacred here," a British peacekeeper on the scene reported. "It's horrendous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Something . . . Anything | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Besides, the cruelest irony about your fear of hurting others by coming out is that most of your friends and almost certainly your parents already know. This is not because an essence of homosexuality has started oozing through your pores. It's because at some point, sometimes very early in life, a part of you has started sending out signals that you are "different:" These signals can be unintentional, like your protesting against fag jokes. In any event, they represent a healthy refusal by some part of you to believe that your human worth is conditioned on your being heterosexual...

Author: By John T. Patterson, | Title: Coming Out: The Only Chance | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...cruelest irony about your fear of coming out is that your friends and family probably already know...

Author: By John T. Patterson, | Title: Coming Out: The Only Chance | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...yards, with a 45-degree incline facing golfers on their second shots and a green with the flatness of the Alps once up the hill. Three of Crimson golfers missed putts inside of four feet after poor lags to the far-left pin position. But Radtke had perhaps the cruelest break of all. His drive was too perfect, stopping halfway down a slope, impeded by a burrowing animal hole, and leaving him with no chance to hit a shot with enough elevation to clear the rise in front...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Golf Slips at Yale | 4/13/1993 | See Source »

...Weiss can hardly see. David Schmitt can barely hear. Together, the elderly woman, who suffers from diabetes, congestive heart failure and arthritis, and the widower, who is recovering from a hip fracture, slowly shift through the halls of Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J. Typical victims of aging's cruelest blows? Not really. Weiss is actually a resident in family practice, age 30, and Schmitt a medical student, 26. They have been assigned roles, ages and infirmities as an innovative part of their medical training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson in Compassion | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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