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...presents a newsreel from the battle of Tarawa--issued on President Franklin D. Roosevelt's orders--that shows ghastly images of Marine dead. "This," the newsreel narrator intones, "is the price we had to pay for a war we didn't want." Today the government is loath to lay out a price, or ask one. "People yearn for the memory of shared sacrifice that the Second World War represents," Burns says. "Now we're all free agents. We don't give up nothin'. We were asked after 9/11 to go shopping. It was sort of 'Don't worry your pretty...
...Faust said that raising money for financial aid for graduate students will be an important facet of the next capital campaign, although she added that it was “a little premature” to lay out specific targets...
...doused the flames of burning vehicles. A cordon of green-bereted Lebanese troops sealed off the area from an angry and anxious crowd. "There's blood everywhere, blood, blood," cried a distraught Ziad Ghosn, eyeing a crimson trail in the bomb-blasted ruins of his brother's apartment, which lay above the explosion...
...Your article on NDEs was a sober yet uplifting account of these very important experiences. I have been concerned by lay portrayals that misuse neuroscience and give false scientific hope despite ample room for spirituality. You brought in highly divergent views and struck a reasoned balance between what science knows, what it might know and what it doesn't know - a difficult task indeed. Kevin R. Nelson, M.D., Professor of Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky...
...Paul II did on world affairs, Benedict will again have to use his skills as theologian-philosopher to make a political point - adding a bigger dose of diplomacy than he did last year in Regensberg. He had a chance during an address last Friday to Vienna-based diplomats to lay out his broad vision of world affairs, but he chose not to take it. With key figures at the International Atomic Energy Agency present, for example, he made no mention of growing tensions between the West and Iran. Still, Benedict may soon get another, even bigger political opportunity: Vatican insiders...