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Hart, whose speech traced the political odyssey of his generation from its optimistic beginnings in the early 1960s to the age of pere-stroika, said the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40 and the disillusionment of the Vietnam War made citizens realize the limits of American power...
Virgil's Aeneid. Homer's Odyssey. We go to Harvard. We took Literature & Arts C-14. We know the Classics...
...said Derek Humphry of the Hemlock Society. "She should have been allowed to die in the first year of her condition." Nancy Myers of the National Right to Life Committee countered that the ruling "represents a serious decline in how our society values human life." While the Cruzans' legal odyssey is ending, their struggle has persuaded many Americans to seek to avoid the same fate. Since the Supreme Court decision, right-to-die advocates report that inquiries about living wills have surged 500-fold...
Stubbornness more than ambition fueled Betsy Watson's 17-year rise through the ranks -- an odyssey that carried her from the days when she was expected to sew her own uniform in the police academy to an era in which the chief is inundated with baby showers. Despite her badge, Watson was mostly involuntarily shielded from hazardous duty. Her brief rotation to the SWAT team meant that she worked the radio. Her husband Robert, seemingly content with his own status as a police sergeant, had to coax her into bucking for each promotion. In 1980, when as a detective...
From the Sounds of Silence to the redemption of Graceland to the dreamy Rhythm of the Saints, the musical odyssey of a poet and songwriter...