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...World War I commemoration in Memorial Church dealt with this dilemma on Veteran’s Day 1932 by engraving the names of the four alumni killed in German uniform on a separate plaque. The English translation of its Latin inscription reads, “Harvard has not forgotten her sons who under opposite standards gave their lives for their country...
...forgotten. Left behind to squabble among the ashes are Cosey's former child-bride Heed and his granddaughter Christine, now old women, dwelling together in Faulknerian squalor. Why do they hate each other so much? What brought on the fall of the House of Cosey? And who (if anyone) killed Bill? Be forewarned: the story comes with some assembly required. We piece it together through the remembered narratives of the various members of the household, including Heed, Christine, L and Junior, a lusty, scheming teenage vixen "with a skirt short as underpants and no underpants at all," whom Heed hires...
...ongoing war in Chechnya was insightful [WORLD, Oct. 13]. For all Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to conflate Russia's bloody quagmire in Chechnya with America's global struggle against terrorism, the truth was made abundantly clear in Quinn-Judge's article. Chechnya is truly a forgotten heart of darkness, and its people are suffering the gravest crimes against humanity. The localized Chechen conflict has dynamics that are unrelated to al-Qaeda's terrorist struggle against the West. Thank you for reminding us of the Chechens, who seem to have been forgotten by the West. BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS Somerville...
...kidding, he would definitely get thrown off the mother-fucking cliff, even if he is a ‘nice guy,’” posited McGeary. All was temporarily forgotten when the waitress brought McGeary and Trager matching Bailey’s on the rocks, and the two shared an amicable toast...
That's a simplistic, if inaccurate, charge. Yet those historical grievances, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, are something foreign investors have too quickly forgotten--not just in Peru but throughout Latin America, where politics are turning sharply leftward after the capitalist reforms of the '90s left more of the region in poverty...