Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair of junior Kristen Flink and Curto took the other Harvard loss...
...going to give up or hang our heads because of one loss," Buttles said. "We have some important upcoming games, and our chance to win the Ivies is not totally gone." CORNELL, 13-7 at Lacrosse Field Harvard 1 2 1 2 - 7 Cornell...
This is what the Holocaust seems to have come to--an exchange of dollars for unspeakable suffering and loss, and a shared pretense that money is an instrument of justice. In cases where restitution is at issue--the return of artworks, homes and property to their rightful owners, for instance--financial repayment may come close to settling the score; but even there, no compensation would take account of what it cost to be dragged away from one's home or to have had one's beloved possessions seized by the state...
...asking to be compensated for work they would never have done willingly in the first place; no justice there. As for repayment for pain, how does that work? Stolen property may be returned, but how would a young banker in modern Germany have compensated my great-uncle for the loss of his family, his ambition and his spirit...
Again and again on this CD, Nas raps about struggle and loss. Originally he recorded--then dropped from the album--a soulful, introspective song about growing up poor called Project Windows; here's hoping he will include it on a future album. Another song (one that made the cut), We Will Survive, mourns the shooting death of superstar rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. "[Smalls and I] were supposed to meet the night he died," says Nas. "I can't forget Biggie and Pac--they made it possible for rap music to blow...