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...still grieve over those we were unable to rescue," Ford reflected last week from his library in Ann Arbor. "I still mourn for 2,500 American soldiers who to this day remain unaccounted for. Yet along with the pain there is pride. In the face of overwhelming pressure to shut our doors, we were able to resettle a first wave of more than 130,000 Vietnamese refugees. To have done anything less would in my opinion have only added moral shame to military humiliation." Today almost a million people born in Vietnam live in the U.S., making Vietnamese Americans...
Beowulf may, by modern standards, seem bloodthirsty and deluded, but Heaney's poetry makes eloquently persuasive the hero's tragic stature. And when he dies, his people mourn not just in sorrow but in fear of the enemies who will surely descend on them...
Especially in a thriving intellectual community like Cambridge, ideally the surroundings would effect a collegiate feel. But as the Square slowly becomes just another incarnation of the suburban strip mall, will we mourn the change? Perhaps next year the Bow and Arrow Pub, along with the Dunkin' Donuts, will just exist in the minds of upperclass students as first-years wander the brick sidewalks looking for "that bar in Good Will Hunting...
...said simply, "I'm proud of him. He did his duty." To some that might seem like a stinting remark, but military families recognize it as the most loving praise a father could give a son. Had he outlived his father, the admiral's son would mourn his loss, as do I, by saying, "We're proud of you, sir. You did your duty and earned your rest...
cannot afford to mourn the loss of Clemente. Harvard must begin its quest for the Ivy crown with its leading scorer looking on from the sidelines...