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Crops are submerged under inches of water -- and the entire planting season may be ruined if the fall freeze comes early or even on time. Bob Plathe, who farms 800 acres of soybean and corn in Lu Verne, Iowa, echoes the region's lament. "There aren't a lot of farmers around anymore who can take a hit like this and survive. It's pretty hard for a third-generation farmer to lose his grandpa's farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi Rising | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict. That was University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney's lament this April when a group of Penn students, citing an offensive editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole and trashed 14,000 copies of the college newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A True Diversity of Ideas | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Others miss the people of Harvard, and lament that they don't even have time to lunch with the numerous Cambridge transplants they are aware...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: THE WASHINGTON EXODUS | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Even if one does not subscribe to the tenets of pacifism, it is fundamentally paradoxical to claim the military should only be used in dire situations and then to honor rather than lament its use. In response to these issues, some of us will wear white armbands to Commencement as a symbol of our advocacy of nonviolence and disappointment in Harvard's choice of speaker. Rebecca Goldin '93 Jessica T. Pisano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choice of Powell Honors Militarism | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

Dionyshus (pupetecred> by Raphed Sperry), god of aged grape juice and its accompanying revelry, open the play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: The Frogs: Aristophanes With Strings Attached | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

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