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...better or worse, war is a mediated experience to us. Our sentiments about it are formed with reference to secondary sources which, as in academe, are fine for analytical purposes but do little to highlight the gritty substance. They fail us in our inability to author a new military resolve. This was apparent yesterday, Veterans Day, which translated for students into a day's break from classes. Our communal "celebration" of this civic holiday did not truly honor any present fighting honor guard nor salute the efforts of past American military men and women...
Durbin put himself through school after his father died of lung cancer, giving him working-class roots and a chance to highlight his opponent's millionaire status. After 13 years in Congress and an endorsement from retiring Senator Paul Simon, Durbin is the favorite...
...highlight of the weekend was yesterday's annual address by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in the Memorial Church. In a speech titled "After the Novelty, Before the Facts: What Parents Need to Know and Don't," Gomes spoke to a full Science Center B about the changes students go through when they enter college...
...less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Dole made the centerpiece of his campaign not his 15% tax cut but Clinton's moral fitness. "We're just starting to get tough," he told an audience in Riverside, California, noting that for the next 19 days he would highlight what he called "the sleaze factor" in the White House. "Never has America seen a politician," Dole said, "who brags so freely about promises he never kept, votes he hasn't earned, goals he never accomplished or virtues he never displayed...
Humanity, in fact, appears to be a recurring theme of the fall term. Two new plays, which are appearing together for a limited showing this weekend and next at the Loeb Experimental Theater, highlight through acute satire the numbed, mediated culture in which students live today. The first, called "Small World Order," is written by Douglas B. Rand '98 with music by Adam J. Levitin '98. The place is Disneyworld. The ride is a version of company history, only the company has overwhelmed the country. New England, for example, is fondly known as "Puritan Land" and Texas goes by "Lone...