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...they?” Despite some student’s concerns, Paul J. McLoughlin II, Assistant Dean of the College and Project Manger for the SOCH, seemed confident that the center would be a valuable resource for the college. “On a campus where space is so precious, this is 40,000 square feet for student space,” says McLoughlin. Hopefully, students will find that the space is better filled with Syrian pizza than dusty old books...
...people have been kidnapped from Karrada in the past year. For many residents, the most galling thing about today's lockdown is the sight of Iraqi forces assisting in the search for the missing U.S. soldier; it suggests that even to their own government, an American life is more precious than an Iraqi one. "Iraqis are kidnapped every day, but nobody ever shuts down an entire neighborhood for them," said Mohsen abu Ziad, a Karrada resident. "But I guess an Iraqi life is worth nothing compared to an American life...
...daughter. Moral instinct tells us that a father's love counts for something; taking a baby away to be raised even in a splendor does violence to the bonds that define who we are. But is that instinct our luxury, our indulgence? If we were trying to raise our precious children in a country where a great many will die before they reach the age of five, would we be so quick to exalt love over survival...
...across the slate grey surface of the Yalu River. Sprawling for miles along the banks of the river, Dandong seems a perfect, bustling symbol of the "new" China. Brightly dresssed townspeople stroll along the tree-lined promenade, courting teenagers mixing with office workers and doting parents chasing a single, precious child, many of them toting shopping bags from nearby malls. But this is anything but a normal town, because just across the river stands the decrepit North Korean city of Shinnuiju. As the main crossing point on China's 880-mile border with its purported ally, Dandong has suddenly been...
After the tour, the pastor, deacons, and I held hands and said a prayer in the sanctuary. Then they left me to sit in one of the pews and gather my thoughts. What must it have been like for those parents 40 years ago, I wondered, knowing that their precious daughters had been snatched away by violence at once so casual and so vicious? How could they endure the anguish unless they were certain that some purpose lay behind their children's murders, that some meaning could be found in immeasurable loss? Those parents would have seen the mourners pour...