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About 70 graduate students, professors and staff members gathered yesterday morning in grief and bewilderment over the apparent suicide of Hailei Ge, a first-year graduate student in Computer Science from Beijing...
...embraceable than James's work, the reason may be that its authors, Ruth and Augustus Goetz, have streamlined and softened a brittle, merciless story into something like exquisite melodrama. The characters, for whom James himself had little affection, have more obvious motivations (the extreme foregrounding of Dr. Sloper's grief for his wife, for example) and higher tides of emotional exclamation ("He must love me, someone must want me," Catherine yells. "I have never had that!"). Moreover, the authors don't ignore that dictum of audience-pleasing, "Let the underdog have her day." In fact, though, this issue of Catherine...
...Dead] is a way of remembering people who have died, dealing communally with grief but also celebrating their lives with them," said Maria Elena Gonzalez, one of the organizers of the event and a graduate student at the Divinity School...
Many claim that the death penalty helps the loved ones of homicide victims deal with their loss; yet, much as we want to alleviate their pain, we must not kill out of grief. Dorchester's Joseph Chery, a man who knows as much about the pain of murder as anyone after his young son was killed, has become an outspoken opponent of the death penalty. "As human beings, your very first impulse dictates revenge," Chery told the Boston Globe this past weekend. "But as reasonable beings, it becomes a question of repressing that first instinct, using your values, using your...
...Whitman's victory four years ago was that she was an oddly effective populist candidate. She got grief for her multimillion-dollar net worth, and for an unfortunate comment about a tax rebate: "Funny as it might seem, $500 is a lot of money to some people." But she convinced voters she felt their pain over Governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase. It was her vow to undo the damage with a 30% income-tax cut that gave her a winning margin of 26,093 votes. This time, though, it is the feisty McGreevey who seems...