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...post-assassination sermon, an earnest lamentation about the "sickness of American society," has become a notably fatuous genre that blames everyone and then, after 15 minutes of earnestly empty regret, absolves everyone. It is true that there is a good deal of evil in the American air; television and the sheer repetitiousness of violence have made a lot of the country morally weary and dull and difficult to shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: It's Time to Ban Handguns | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...Pennsylvanian cancelled Manno's weekly column because of the incident. Andrew J. Kirtzman, executive editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, said yesterday. "We regret printing the column. The Daily Pennsylvanian has standards which this column did not meet," he added...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Secret Service Grills Penn Columnist; Feared His Column Threatened Reagan | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

...rest of my life, like how to be disciplined and how to deal with people," she responds. "I've also been able to see countries like Australia. Brazil, Russia, China, East and West Germany, and Japan, that I might never have seen otherwise. I don't regret the time I've put into swimming...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: A Level-Headed Champion | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...read and reread with great interest your article about the fear of Viet Nam by Cambodia and Thailand. As a South Vietnamese who suffered the inhumanity of the Communists for more than five years, I can only regret how much damage the American press did both to us and to the American people. Only the negative aspects of South Vietnamese efforts were emphasized. Similarly the American involvement was viewed with skepticism. This of course served our enemies well. The result was that we lost our land, and our people were put under the rule of the new Soviet tsars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1981 | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Vietnamese people fully realize now that the system they lost (even though there was need for great improvement) is much superior to the alternative the Communists keep boasting about to the world. I regret my delayed expression of appreciation for the American sacrifices in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1981 | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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