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...most likely and saddest explanation for the destruction of Norway Field is that the youths who destroyed it simply do not care for their home communities. By their actions, they show no stake or interest in protecting and treasuring those rare collective goods which their neighborhood acquires. The local vandals saw a delicate thing starting to grow in their neighborhood--something other children could make good use of--and they plucked it from the ground and burned it. They should be ashamed. If their own home is not valuable to them, what...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: The Torching of Norway Field | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

...Brother, was struck that the victim, no matter how troubled, was just a little boy. "His grandmother kept wailing that someone should have been there for him, and I know that's true," says Liss. His photos of the scene, he says, were quite simply "the saddest pictures I've ever taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Sep. 19, 1994 | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Soviet (and later Russian) army ended as the last soldiers quietly faded away. Joyous Balts celebrated with fireworks, speeches and a free rock concert at a former Soviet military base in the heart of the Estonian capital, Tallinn. "Today," said Estonian President Lennart Meri, "signifies the end of the saddest chapter in our history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week August 28 - September 3 | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...readers who are delighted when Cora signs her letters to Em "Mom Sequitur" or who laugh at the joke "What are the saddest two words in the English language? What party?", Delusions of Grandma is an entertaining read. But at $22.00 and a two-hour reading time, even the staunchest Fisher fan would be wise to wait for the paperback...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Fisher Lands a Whale Of a Deluded Comic Novel | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

SEPT. 26: Yesterday was probably the coldest, darkest, saddest day of my life. I stood at attention as three American soldiers were rolled by in caskets draped with American flags. War is very sad and kills everyone in some way. I can't help but think what might happen if it had been me in one of those caskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia: Letters Home | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

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