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...sterling case of wanting most what you don’t have, Harvard students have developed a major preoccupation with the inadequacies of our campus social life. We lament that weekends at Harvard begin only on Fridays and last only until the early hours of Sunday morning. When there are actually parties, we complain that there are not enough or that they are not well attended—or that they are too well attended and insufficiently ventilated...
...even with the fortitude to continue on in spite of tragedy, America pauses in the journey to mourn the heroes we have lost. And we do not lament alone, for this was an international tragedy. The hauntingly horrid vision of the Columbia’s archangelic descent was seen around the world. Aboard the ship was Israel’s first astronaut, who had become a national hero in his home country before he ever stepped foot on the Space Shuttle. The pain is also felt deeply here at Harvard, for a certain kinship is shared amongst those?...
...this poem we celebrate Marian’s life but at the same time lament it was a mere 20 years long,” Rosenberger said...
...only is The Crimson wrong to call for the posthumous awarding of diplomas to students expelled from the College in 1920, but it is wrong to lament their expulsion at all (Editorial, “An 82-Year-Old Mistake,” Dec. 6). To exaggerate as “cruel persecution” a very appropriate disciplinary move by the College is to declare that the College should not attempt to maintain any level of moral decency whatever. Today, indeed, as the College freely distributes contraceptive devices to encourage sexual activity among the students, it positively subverts traditional...
...Iraqis are even relatively calm on the subject of America. Many, of course, are bitter over the 12-year-long U.S.-supported embargo, which Baghdad claims has led to thousands of infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged in part by a government-sponsored religious campaign, few Iraqis seem to share Osama bin Laden's repugnance for Western culture. Sitting on the lawn of Al Mustansiriyah University, geography student Hamid Lechali...