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Their decision to depart came after a year that saw the summer 2006 ousting of O'Brien from her former deputy dean position, and the death of Badaracco's oldest daughter, Anna, in an August 2006 car accident...
Commencement is ironically a time for closing. It is a time when Harvard presents, after four toilsome years, its illustrious graduating class. They have been equipped with the keen ethical and intellectual insight to answer the Harvard call of duty: “Depart to serve better thy country and they kind.” Harvard is, and has long been, a paramount institution. Its graduates are the enlightened; they are the light bearers and the promised leaders of tomorrow. This is why the events of May 12 should never have happened...
...Goltz, in 1883 that "the strength of a nation lies in its youth," was pretty much shared by all the muscle-flexing European powers of that era (though few were crass enough to argue, as he did, that armies needed the young because "it is only the young that depart from life without pangs.") World War I ultimately spent the lives of as many as 3 million of Europe's adolescents, and the pangs were felt for decades. "The Great War," Savage writes, "forever destroyed the automatic obedience that elders expected from their children...
With that, yet another leading family would depart an American news business once dominated by such clans. Newspaper-owning families began selling out in a big way to corporate chains in the 1960s. The largest chains--Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Tribune, Times Mirror--mostly started out family run as well, but as they expanded, the family stake was diluted, and Wall Street came to call the shots. This wasn't all bad; lots of family-owned newspapers were horrible. Knight-Ridder in particular gained a reputation for improving the properties it bought. But with profits under severe pressure from the Internet...
...Beijing, U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill - intercepted by reporters on his way to his hotel room to pack his bags, catch a few hours sleep and depart for Washington - didn't sound so optimistic...