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Most people are little aware of the prevalence of government mass murder, except for the Nazi genocide of six million Jews. Yet even this somber memorial vastly underestimates the violence of the regime, which murdered over three times that many human beings—nearly 21 million in total, excluding war dead...
...band’s mellow guitar tone yields a somber mood, evoking a less interesting Interpol. But whereas Interpol glide effortlessly between peppy and solemn, these songs are rarely fun. Even the power-pop infused “Everywhere You Turn” and “All Sewn Up” feel tedious. The album’s low point, appropriately titled “Meet Me at the Bottom,” tries too hard to evoke feelings of uselessness. Perhaps the song does its job too well...
...that Administration hawks had peddled to build support for the war. The hopeful mood on display at the White House on the war's opening night has vanished. A presidential adviser said aides were trying to concentrate on their work while glued to their televisions. "They're very, very somber," the adviser said. Before Bush's speech at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last Wednesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One that Bush would declare the war was progressing "ahead of schedule." But Bush decided to scratch that sentence from his speech, eliciting...
Associate Managing Editor Kate L. Rakoczy ’04 won first place in the news features category for “On Somber Eve, Business as Usual in New York City,” a report from New York on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks...
...cold and somber day. Nearly a quarter of the labor force was out of work. Banks had shut their doors. Farms were going belly up. Breadlines snaked through city streets. Standing jut jawed at the lectern before the Capitol's assembled throng on his first Inauguration Day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt countered the sense of helplessness, telling the shaken nation, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He then outlined a plan of economic revolution: bank and stock-market reforms, public-works programs, and emergency relief for farms. But the day's solemnity made room for celebration...