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...home, avoiding what could have been an endless and bloody bog. "Finishing the job" would have meant a huge and perhaps unsuccessful search for Saddam, the breakup of the coalition of Arab states and strain among European allies. And the body-bag specter, so big back then, is conveniently forgotten...
Gone, but not forgotten...
...phenomenon: flashbulb memory. As time passes, the chronology gets jumbled; we fumble on the details; we reimagine the past to make it more coherent, meaningful, bearable. A new study at the University of Illinois at Chicago of a large, countrywide sample of people is discovering that we have already forgotten some things about Sept. 11. Which tower fell first? Was the Pentagon hit after both World Trade Center towers? We forget. We conflate. We confuse...
...officially declared open the 367th session of Harvard College, and he and Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley “Ibby” Nathans stuck to their yearly script kidding new students about the long history of “inept” and now forgotten students that preceded them...
...delegate continued. The World Summit on Sustainable Development was just four days old, but the man was already in a daze, giddy from all the meetings, speeches, exhibitions and protests. "I'm not even sure where I am," he confessed. "There are so many people talking I've forgotten what we're meant to be talking about...