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...leader in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the city’s World Trade Center. Both political leaders and private citizens have expressed great admiration for the mayor’s conduct in the weeks since the attack, and last week this page expressed its regret that the mayor will not be able to run for a third term in the upcoming election...
...less than 300,000 men from Britain and the other dominions to overwhelm the Afrikaaner resistance in a three-year campaign. "We have had no end of a lesson," Kipling warned. British military forces were not equipped for guerrilla warfare. Intelligence was lacking. Stock markets swooned. Foreign states expressed regret but privately enjoyed the British discomfiture. The empire was compelled to rethink its strategy, its priorities, its trade-offs and its future. It was badly shaken...
Rather than force them into a hastily conceived decision, which we could all regret later, the American public must have the patience, faith and stoicism to see this endeavor through to the end, however long that may take...
...Bobby, the summer, his magical Atlantis, passes with a series of startling revelations and changes in perception. In this period of growth, he begins to become aware—aware of his feelings for his friend Carol (Mika Boorem), of his mother’s greed and later, of regret, of his father’s true character, of the evils around him and of the uncanny gift possessed by his mysterious friend. Bobby must gradually come to terms with love, loss and truth as he grows out of this Atlantis...
Biggest Harvard Regret: I broke my ankle freshman year running on a snowy night around the river. It was terrible...