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...boxes in the weeks after the attack quotes what it calls a prediction of the French astrologer’s: “In the City of God there will be a great thunder, / Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, / The third big war will begin when the big city is burning...
...what’s going to happen. But the future can’t be predicted—not by a sixteenth-century mystic, not by someone writing in the style of a sixteenth-century mystic, and not by the Bush administration. To imagine that it can is to succumb to the worst sort of superstition...
...more difficult…to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have come truly to understand the role of humane learning...
...holiday calls us to once again enjoy our one-time blissful ignorance of the realities of terrorism. After all, the likes of Osama bin Laden succeed when the cultures they target grind to a halt, possessed by threat and fear. American culture, and especially the Harvard community, must not succumb so easily. Air strikes are effective retaliation, but for tonight, kids trick-or-treating and college students partying without fear send a louder message to bin Laden that his tactics have failed...
...will prevail in the struggle in which we are now engaged because we will not succumb to the temptation of nihilism,” Summers said during the morning prayer service. “And despite what has happened, we will cherish the ideals on which this University and our nation were founded all the more...