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...silent generation,” the Vietnam War was eye-opening...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neil Sheehan | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...member of the “silent generation,” Neil Sheehan ’58 made a life out of making noise...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neil Sheehan | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...since the May 12 earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province, Liu Li came to the site again where her 15-year-old daughter perished. Today was different, though. As a lone bulldozer slowly worked to clear the rubble from the collapsed Juyuan Middle School, Liu stood in silent protest, along with nine other parents who also lost their only children when the schoolhouse crumbled in the quake. For more than an hour, as tears streamed down her face, Liu, 40, displayed a large photograph of Hui Shan, her daughter. It was a mock magazine cover, done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Anguish on Children's Day | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...Rescorla stood directing people down the stairwell on the 44th floor, the second plane hit - this time striking about 38 floors above his head. The building lunged violently, and some people were thrown to the floor. "Stop," Rescorla ordered through the bullhorn. "Be still. Be silent. Be calm." In response, "No one spoke or moved," Stewart writes. "It was as if Rescorla had cast a spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Survival Guide to Catastrophe | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...campaign. As for Carter, he certainly has not passed on; he is an active freelance diplomat and campaign consultant. In recent days he has told Hillary Clinton to "give it up" in June and estimated the size of Israel's nuclear stockpile. (Other previous Presidents have kept tactfully silent about its very existence.) Earlier, both John McCain and Barack Obama had felt compelled to denounce Carter's meeting with representatives of Hamas. Carter's almost predictable intrusions into the news have done little to sway events, but they have conjured memories of a past that the current President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Carter's Shadow | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

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