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Those of us of with gray hair have seen things we once never thought possible. As a teenager in 1960s Britain, I remember once looking at a Düreresque woodcut of the steeples of Prague - which then seemed on the far side of the world - and thinking, "How sad that I'll never go there." But now Europe is free from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, its peoples mingling happily, trading with each other, watching the same football games, sharing the same Aegean beaches. Hansa towns on the Baltic, once trapped in a frozen Soviet stubble...
...Michael,” saying that he was a construction worker from the Boston area. “He just wanted to talk to someone,” said Lauren A. Onofrey ’12, who received one of the calls. “He sounded legitimately very sad.” The description of the calls earlier this week echo those of a series of anonymous phone calls to undergraduates dating back to the late 1990s. In 2007, a caller who also identified himself as “Michael” made late-night calls to Harvard dorms...
...says that while during graduate school he experienced a brief period where he “kind of got to thinking, maybe I’ve been here too long.” But he now considers Cambridge home. “It’s going to be sad to leave, whenever I do,” he says...
...story of J. Smith’s intended suicide: “Oh the mould has been cast / The radio’s in the bath / Yeah yeah yeah.” The song soars up into an ethereal, polyphonic Latin chorale reciting Smith’s sad tale before the guitars roar and begin a heavy-metal-lite reprise. The song returns to basic rhythm guitar and drums as J. Smith returns to earth and, despite his best efforts, continues to live.Perhaps no track best delivers the overriding pessimism of “Ode to J. Smith?...
This was the moment that abstract principles and necessary safeguards collided with the sad, strong will of a dying girl. Under British law, a child Hannah's age is allowed to refuse lifesaving treatment, provided that all the options have been fully explained and the child has the support of his or her parents. A social worker arrived at the Joneses' house, and Hannah laid out her reasons. "I just decided there were too many risks, and even if I took it, there might be a bad outcome," Hannah said. "There is a chance that...