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...commemorations. In a heaving swell, the Sydney's finders threw a wreath onto the waves above the ship and read a poem by one of its doomed crew: "There sleeps one who took his chances/ In that war-crazed, tragic hell/ Battled luck and circumstances/ Loved and laughed, but fought and fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost No More | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...more and more Tibetans in exile ask how they can sit by and practice nonviolence while their homes and families are being wiped out by the Chinese occupation. "Why is he thinking of the future and not the present, the past?" asks an outspoken Tibetan in Dharamsala who once fought with the cia-trained guerrillas violently resisting the Chinese. "I want freedom in this world, not from this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...Hell no. I fought. I wrote in the newsletter and I fought. It didn't do any good because everybody was scared sh--less of her. But I'll give Betty credit. I don't know if you ever met her. Bombastic, rude, self-centered. Brilliant. And you know what? Fundamentally a moral person and about 20 years later she apologized to me in public. It took a lot. She said, I was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rita Mae Brown: Loves Cats, Hates Marriage | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...They’re like the debates that our country had during the civil rights era and debates that we had about states’ rights,” O’Sullivan said. “These are debates, which in our country took decades and we fought a civil war over. The hard question for Americans is how long do we wait? How long do we help provide security so that they can make these decisions...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: There and Back Again | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Islamic culture. We believe that the ideals for which we mounted a revolution can provide us with both material and spiritual growth and also guarantee our well-being in the other world, and hence, allow us to live with dignity in this world. I and thousands like me who fought Saddam's forces in the battlefields are bringing the same mentality to our work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rival for Iran's Ahmadinejad | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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