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Raymond Carver was only 50 when he died, in 1988, of lung cancer. Those who knew him personally mourned, and continue to mourn, the loss of a warm and generous friend, a man whose hard early life--periods of dead-end jobs and poverty, severe alcoholism--had somehow made him gentle. Readers aware of him only from his books have missed him too, for Carver had, during the 12 years preceding his death, virtually reinvented the American short story...
...gathering featured a "George W. Dartboard" where anxious Gore supporters could relieve stress. The relatively partisan crowd also included a group of first-years that swore that if Bush won they would dress in all black today to mourn Gore's loss...
...highly partisan rallies/vigils sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). While these groups might pretend that they encourage open dialogue, their behavior suggests they want anything but. Rather than solicit other opinions they have polarized the issues. By holding separate vigils to mourn the dead and organizing competing rallies to assert their own opinions, these two groups have drawn a bold line between their two sides. Debate consists of yelling back and forth between the two. The average student, with murky, undecided opinions, is afraid to join...
...days after the crash, the new governor, Democrat Roger Wilson, suggested a somewhat touchy plan: Why not ask Jean Carnahan, widow of the late governor, to take her husband's place if he should win the election? Mrs. Carnahan initially demurred, and withdrew from public sight to mourn with her family and friends...
...Israel because we believe that while Israel has made unprecedented efforts to create peace with its Arab neighbors, Chairman Yasser Arafat and his supporters have now responded with rhetoric and violence. In this situation, Israel has had no choice but to defend itself from these violent attacks. We too mourn the fact that youths have died in this bloody battle, but as the highly-respected Rep. Barney Frank '61 asserted at the rally, "It is wholly irresponsible to tell young people to destroy a nation--Israel--and then be surprised when their lives are taken." We are terrified...