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...sided battles in history. The U.S. lost 2,433 killed (about half of them on the Arizona) and 1,178 wounded. The Japanese, who had expected to sacrifice as much as one-third of their force, lost 55 airmen, nine crewmen aboard five minisubs and approximately 65 on one sunken submarine. The U.S. lost 18 surface warships, sunk or seriously damaged; the Japanese none. The U.S. lost 188 planes destroyed and 159 damaged; the Japanese lost 29. Yet three of the five wrecked U.S. battleships (the California, Nevada and West Virginia) were eventually restored to service, and all the lost...
...marched against it and denounced it as immoral. Perhaps that explains why I had in the past approached the Vietnam Memorial with trepidation, feeling I was intruding upon the grief of others. But on the first weekend of the air war against Iraq, I found myself impelled toward these sunken slabs on the Mall, as if this were the proper moment to seek communion with the wall of names. My thoughts jumbled as I stood there: schoolboy patriotism, the waste of war, the sands of time. Finally, I murmured, "I hope we have learned the right lessons from Vietnam...
...think war is dehumanizing, hearing cold terms like losses and casualties to describe injuries and death," said Eliot House resident Matthew Barmack '92. "But to be honest, it hasn't sunken in. I think it's something...
...soon found myself stranded on a deserted road with a sunken car, a lump in my throat and a torn tire. My humiliation only deepened when I had to explain the whole incident to the mechanic at the gas station I had so cockily passed only minutes before...
...grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez. At 20, as The Waterseller attests, he was already a virtuoso of appearances. To be able to record both the half-sunken splash of water and the light dew of condensation on the pottery jar in the + foreground was to have touched a level of skill beyond that of most painters. But then the virtuosity is replaced by something deeper -- a meditation on the way the painter translates sight into mark...