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Looking back, the Sioux had it right. Jefferson had told Lewis to inform "those through whose country you will pass" that "henceforth we become their fathers and friends, and that we shall endeavor that they shall have no cause to lament the change." But whites brought diseases that killed as many as 90% of some tribes' members. Most of the tribes Lewis and Clark encountered were forced off the rivers that sustained their commerce and culture and herded onto reservations with poor soil. Today a third of Native Americans live below the poverty line, and half are unemployed...
...Rodriguez says Stanford’s residential system works well, fostering a sense community within the houses. He does lament the lack of a central-gathering point on campus—similar to the student center for which Harvard students have longed...
...satisfying social life. I believe I speak for members of all eight clubs in saying that we too bemoan the College’s distressing lack of options for the socially active student, and would go to great lengths to help improve the social situation. Furthermore, we lament that this lack of options has drastically changed the role and position of final clubs on campus. Students must understand that final clubs share a common goal of improving social life at Harvard for all those concerned
Singer and Willett lament how squeezed for space GSE has become in recent years and how it has been forced to rent space around Harvard Square...
...These facts are not entirely to India's advantage: the truth that many of India's brightest talents have been "lost" to Britain and North America was a constant lament in the literary festival. And the violence that shocked Ahmadabad and Ayodhya the following week made a mockery of blind optimism. Yet in certain ways, I thought, India can be not only the counter-Japan it's always seemed to be, but, in parts a corrective to Japan. The "Land of Wa" famously, ideally, functions like an orchestra in which everyone knows her part in a score designed to present...