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...last Sunday's extra, Dr. Randolph Catlin Jr., the head of Harvard mental health services, said that Harvard's suicide rate was probably less than a larger university like Duke ("Stunned Dunster Resident Mourn Housemates," May 28, 1995). Catlin did not intend to imply that Duke has a suicide problem, as the University has not had an on-campus suicide in the past 10 years. Catlin apologizes for the error...
...past week, we have all felt the weight of the tragedy that occurred in Dunster House. As we mourn for our fellow students, we must also seek to learn from this terrible event and work to improve the College's support systems...
They arrived by the dozens to mourn, but not all were wearing black. Among the 200 people who flocked to Mount Carmel, Texas, last Wednesday for a vigil commemorating the second anniversary of the Waco blaze were strutting men bedecked in camouflage. They were members of the North Texas Constitutional Militia, a paramilitary group, and they brought with them a granite stone carved with the names of the victims who died when the Branch Davidian cult went up in flames on April 19, 1993, following a 51-day standoff with the Federal Government. An 11-year-old niece of polygamist...
This coarse pantomime misses the comic brio of buffa; instead we have the self-conscious and self-subverting irony of a "Saturday Night Live" sketch. The chaotic ensemble action of the first scene--where the various members of Buoso's family mourn his death only because they fear disinheritance--is only a slight improvement...
...supposed to hate his best lines. He saw the folly, and the frailty, of everyone around him. Thus adulterers come to feel compassion for the husbands they're cuckolding; victims see the human side of their criminal tormentors; Fowler in The Quiet American comes to mourn the death of his rival in love and opponent in politics (schadenfreude in reverse, you could say). Even when he was writing wartime propaganda for the British government, Greene described an Englishman's shooting of a German lieutenant-and then finding in the dead man's pocket a picture of his baby...