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...cannot kill me. You cannot kill China. Not even a million deaths would crush the soul of China. For the soul of China is eternal. ... We shall live on until the enemy is driven back over scorched land and hurled into the sea. ... Out of the ashes of ruin ... until the world is again sane and beautiful." The firing squad's fatal work doesn't interrupt Kwan Mei's oration; her ghost finishes the speech. It would be Wong's last grand gesture in films...
...used our resources more wisely over the years we could have helped reduce the death and destruction caused by the tsunami. Laura Geisel Redondo Beach, California, U.S. Tall Order for Abbas In his "Letter from Gaza," Matt Rees referred to the "culture of waste and corruption that ruined the Palestinian economy under Arafat" [Jan. 10]. I don't think that ruin can be laid solely at Yasser Arafat's door. How about the brutal invasion of Palestinian towns and villages by the Israeli army that prevented travel, trade and education, and physically destroyed the Palestinian Authority? And what...
...Vice President of Operations Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06 confirmed that there was little damage to his organization’s office. The water level was not high enough to ruin the computers, he said, but noted that about 50 paperback copies of the Harvard International Review were lost to the waters...
...effort for tens of millions in eleven different countries is not an enterprise to be taken on lightly, and such a vast undertaking is bound to have a few miscues and errors. While there have been reports of bottlenecks and delays in getting aid to the afflicted regions, the ruin foisted upon transportation infrastructure regrettably makes this all but inevitable...
...little quick-dissolving clouds in front of my face. Every now and then a car passed on Memorial Drive. Ice had started to form along the banks of the Charles. It is dangerous to recite poetry, because it is so easy to sound pretentious or uncomfortable and thus to ruin it, but my friend recited in a low clear fine voice. “Oh, lovely,” I said. High above us, the tire swing rope creaked against the tree branch, sighed, and creaked again. He said: “But now I only hear/ Its melancholy, long...