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...insidious rumors I heard about Harvard, this one turned out to be true. Students do get lost in the crowd. In fact, most of the crowd is lost. We know we cannot simply wait to be discovered, but it might be nice if someone noticed that we existed.The sad truth is that I have arrived at Commencement with almost no meaningful faculty relationships. The sadder truth is that so have many of my classmates. And our college experiences have suffered for it. Great faculty relationships can yield stellar advising and inspirational mentorship. The absence of those relationships inevitably results...
...world is now. So I assume that the Ferrari or chili dog that would make me so satisfied now will always have that effect. Finally, when I imagine the future, my mind’s eye leaves out much of what the future will contain. I imagine how sad you’ll be if the Steelers don’t win a second straight Super Bowl, without accounting for the happiness you will derive from reading a great book, going to Shay’s, or winning a crew race.Given the difficulties in predicting the future, the only certainty...
...sad commentary on American politics...that appeals for long-term aid must be based on Soviet actions. The need for U.S. aid would be just as compelling without any threat from the Soviet Union...
...American forces were more aggressively engaged in a real counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq--where our primary objective would be to secure Iraqis and their homes from insurgent and sectarian threat--we would have seen more American abuses. Successful counterinsurgencies are always ugly and morally challenging. What is so sad in Iraq is that the civilian losses caused by the U.S. are not compensated by a larger American military effort to secure the country from holy warriors, insurgents and sectarian militiamen who live to slaughter innocent civilians and Iraq's chance for a more humane, democratic future. President Bush, Secretary...
...them to take parts of their bodies for fetishes. Leontine says she is haunted by the memory of one friend's death. The woman was killed by a machete and then beheaded. "Her head was put on a stick on the edge of the village. I was very, very sad because it was someone I knew," Leontine says softly, holding her 7-month-old baby boy to her chest to keep him quiet. "Whoever could flee ran as fast as possible. They raped women and burned the houses ... Sometimes people were still inside them." Says her husband, who works...