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...elimination of moral codes, however, didnot prevent Hemingway from the impossible attemptto assert value, through language and throughaction. As Frederick Henry discovers in A Farewellto Arms, it is precisely because "You could not goback" that you were forced to rebuild. In AFarewell to Arms. Henry discovers that "If you didnot go forward what happened?" The authentictragedy in Hemingway is the hopelessness of thehuman situation: "The world breaks everyone. Butthose that will not break it kills. It kills thevery good and the very gentle and the very braveimpartially." But it is Hemingway's discovery,momentous in his time and in ours...
Rather than airlifting 20,000 refugees to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. is wisely considering the alternative of providing direct assistance to the bordering nations, such as building barracks for the refugees in Albania. Increased assistance would also help to rebuild Albania's shattered economy and improve their ability to shelter the refugees...
...import was to be felt decades later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...
...Politically, obviously, they are very weak," Grant said. "They're trying to rebuild [their] political clout with nuclear weapons...
When Harvard Planning and Real Estate set out to rebuild the arcade's entrance, Scott Rothkopf '99 devised a plan to install students' artwork on the barriers of the construction site. He chose three artists--Matt Saunders '97, Yuh-Shioh Wong '99 and Emily Hass, a graduate student of design--and the project's only remaining problem was a lack of funds. "We couldn't spend any money at all," says Saunders, who based his piece on a 1940s film of an acrobat biting through a chain. The installation includes one large painting and four peepholes. "Construction barriers are strange...