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...OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL The Butzer Design Partnership honored the 168 people killed in the 1995 bombing with a pavilion containing bronze and glass chairs--one for each victim--that recall the innocent dead while offering figurative comfort to the living...
...wasn't Bush v. Gore or even Florida St. v. Oklahoma. Yet, there was a No. 1 vs. No. 2 battle that took place this weekend in women's ECAC hockey...
...What's worrisome about the lessons being taught to the young is that so many of their shared political and cultural memories have been acquired in the media circuses of the last decade - Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill, Oklahoma City, Columbine, O. J. Simpson, Clinton-Lewinsky, Diana's death, John Kennedy Jr.'s death, Elian Gonzalez and now, the post-election...
...speech Clinton gave after the Oklahoma City bombing was the rhetorical and spiritual turning point of his Administration. That was where he firmly denounced the antigovernment mood that had so pervaded the country. It was an extraordinarily powerful statement, and in a way it pulled together what had been a rather diffuse rationale for his own political and policy efforts. He was as shaken by the tragedy as the country was, but instead of simply talking about lawlessness, he talked about the larger issue, that you cannot "love your country but despise your government." He put it in the framework...
...bombing speech was a moment where, out of the ashes of sorrow and horror, one is reminded of the transcendent political good. Clinton changed the political landscape in a way that makes him the major political figure at the end of the 20th century. And the Oklahoma City speech is where that was most clearly crystallized, not just intellectually but also spiritually. --Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington