Word: solemnization
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Alexander C. Kaufman ’02-’04 delivered the less solemn “Yes Manifesto,” in which he asserted, “Saying no is lame and rarely makes you happy.” He says he made it up about an hour before the party...
Celebratory at times, solemn at others, alumni and current students marked the anniversary Saturday with anecdotes about the personal challenges they faced, the battle they continue to fight to keep military recruiters off campus and the need for classroom instruction in legal issues pertaining to homosexuality...
...which in the far right's eyes is responsible for the multicultural society in Sweden, such as bringing immigrants into the country." Last Friday some 1,300 people, including British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Foreign Ministers Joschka Fischer of Germany and Dominique de Villepin of France, attended a solemn memorial service at Stockholm's City Hall. "Anna Lindh is no longer with us. That idea still feels so foreign, so difficult to accept," said Prime Minister Göran Persson. A week after the stabbing, the country's mood remained grim and unsteady, as hundreds of Swedes gathered daily...
...cool. He has since made a ham-handed attempt to deflect criticism by blaming understaffed hospitals on the 35-hour workweek passed by the previous government - and then scolding detractors for politicizing the tragedy. But at least Raffarin bothered to address the issue; Chirac said nothing until his solemn but less-than-contrite appearance late last week. Geriatric workers hope the news cycle and cooler temperatures don't distract people from the real issues. Says Champvert: "France needs a veritable Marshall Plan for the elderly." With its baby-boom generation swiftly nearing retirement, redemption will require plenty of money...
...crucial embrace of the two nations--it is telling that neither side could agree on when, precisely, it was over--is all the more astonishing for having been based on mutual illusion. What was for France a revenge and a romance was for America a solemn matter of principles and practicalities. Effecting and sustaining that marriage of convenience required Franklin to leave many of those famed Franklinian virtues--the aversion to tyranny, the commitment to tolerance--at home. It was his job to court an absolute monarchy on behalf of a country to which civil liberties, freedom of the press...