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...there was a decade to reckon with. It had personality and definition; it made an impact. It was the decade of the Beatles and the Kennedys, Vietnam and Kent State, the Generation Gap and the Credibility Gap. Negroes became blacks, and black became beautiful; the campuses exploded; draft cards went up in smoke; and sexual taboos disintegrated. When the '60s ended (sometime early in the '70s), the world -- and we -- had changed...
...Most people don't have a vested interest in this," said A. James Kent '93, adding that he was risking his academic standing to demonstrate for peace. "The people at Harvard don't really [care]." Kent said that the U.S. should not have sent troops to the Persian Gulf in the first place, and that war was unnecessary and "ridiculous...
...Supposedly we're trying to build a new world order. That's completely stupid," Kent said. "I don't know what we're trying...
...Calgary Flames picked Drury out of high school in the second round of the National Hockey League draft, just after they chose another rising star--Cornell forward Kent Manderville...
...Five years after Kent State," Fallows wrote, "it is clear how the war could have lasted so long. Johnson and Nixon both knew that the fighting could continue only so long as the vague, hypothetical benefits of holding off Asian communism outweighed the immmediate, palpable domestic pain. They knew that when the screaming grew too loud and too many sons had been killed, the game would be over. That is why...our reluctance to [be drafted] helped prolong...