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...these reasons and more, we were disappointed to see politics enter Wellstone’s memorial service last Tuesday night. It began as a somber gathering, with heartfelt speeches from personal friends remembering the senator, his family and the other people who died in the plane crash. The organizers intentionally kept the focus on Wellstone as a person rather than as a politician. But unfortunately, the service ultimately degenerated into partisan rhetoric; the mourners cheered Democrats and booed Republicans who had come to pay their respects to one of the Senate’s most dedicated public servants...
That his supporters—after two hours of heart-wrenching and somber speeches—burst into partisan chants is neither surprising nor unfortunate. It is simply an earnest reflection of the gravity of our current circumstances: the competitive and critical upcoming election coupled with the startling absence of leadership approaching Wellstone’s moral caliber. In a crowd of 20,000 mourners, it is unreasonable to expect that thoughts would not drift towards the political struggles to come...
...departure from the protests and rallies often associated with anti-war activity at Harvard, a somber and quiet tone prevailed at a speaking event hosted last night by the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice...
Philippe E. Wamba ’93, a rising African-American literary talent, was memorialized Saturday at a somber three-hour service that drew a cross-cultural congregation of more than 100 to Cambridge’s First Unitarian Universalist Church...
...there have been two competing versions of the little wooden guy's story: one headquartered in Italy, where people rightly regard the original as a work of dark genius; and one in the U.S., where generations raised on Disney's moody animated gem don't even know a more somber version exists. So when Italy's biggest star, Roberto Benigni, chose Pinocchio as the follow-up to his triple-Oscar global hit Life is Beautiful (1997), fans of the pinewood protagonist wondered which Pinocchio would show up on their screens...