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This year’s group of transfers include students from Vassar College, Gettysburg College, University of Pennsylvania, Middlebury College and Northwestern University...
...Reread the Gettysburg Address. Pondered its wise words, which speak to us still. Then, saw Crossroads...
...moved a few blocks closer, and police and the National Guard were told to guide tourists to the best vantage points. The OEM is building three 40-ft.-wide raised wooden viewing stations around the site that can accommodate 400 tourists at a time. "This is the 21st century Gettysburg," Sheirer says. "There is a need for people...
...flesh, and the constant police presence; a few weeks ago a three-foot concrete barricade was erected around the Western Union Building across the street, presumably because of the telcom companies and government agencies housed there. So we feel as if we are close enough to the new Gettysburg to be part of the new war effort. Or at least an upmarket extension of Afghanistan: what the performance artist Reno calls ?Tribecastan,? and I call Ground Plus...
...wars get the rhetoric they deserve? Maybe so. The Civil War yielded the Gettysburg Address and the Cold War Churchill?s Iron Curtain address. Sometimes, though, the rhetoric sails beyond the cause. Shakespeare?s Agincourt speech - "We happy few, we band of brothers" - celebrated what was, after all, a stupid battle. This is a just war - the very definition of a just war, at least in its conception. So far, its rhetoric is right...