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...short, you survived however you could, and that need tended to drive out noble sentiments. This is a theme another writer, Paul Fussell, takes up even more brutally in his essay "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." His argument is simple: better them than us--them being the Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, us being the American troops (Fussell among them) poised to invade the Japanese home islands in 1945. Citing ex-Marine E.B. Sledge's eyewitness account of Pacific combat, Fussell writes of Marines "sliding under fire down a shell-pocked ridge, slimy with mud and liquid dysentery...
...this week is relatively free of special provisions to satisfy special interests. Yes, there are education tax breaks slipped into the final bill that'll make college presidents and private school headmasters drool. Republican and Democratic senators on the tax-writing panels are sure to get a few thank-you notes from millionaires and corporate CEOs. But by and large, Bush got the clean bill he wanted. And more important he got it before Democrats took control of the Senate. "I'm really pleased that we've already passed the tax bill," relieved Republican Whip Don Nickles told...
...Cynics at Harvard need to know we can say thank you,” he added. “Cynics on our side need to know that Harvard can give...
With the first pick of the 2002 draft, Houston will select Colby Donaldson, the runner-up from Survivor: The Australian Outback. When Roy Firestone sits down with Donaldson after the draft, Colby will respond, “Thank God I’m a Texan...
...Thank you, Roger Rosenblatt, for writing about your reactions to your mother's death from Alzheimer's [ESSAY, April 30]. My mother also died of this disease two months ago. You have eloquently expressed many of my own feelings at watching my mother slowly slip away. As I walk to work past the flowering trees, enjoying the fresh smell of spring that she loved so much, I miss her. But I had been missing her for some years now. Take a breath of spring, Mr. Rosenblatt. I am, and I think our mothers are too. FELICIA ZETLER Pittsburgh...