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...more than a trivial matter. Our fates may be forever cursed to cross the path of grief, anger, hopelessness, and ruin, but our mutual coping can render these evils liveable. When we stop being good to each other, we destroy ourselves, and our time here on earth becomes tragic...
...years ago, a tragic car accident cut short the lives of then-juniors Deshaun R. Hill ’99 and Harvard C. N. Stephens ’99. Some members of the Class of 1999 and their families launched a scholarship today to honor their memory and contributions as undergraduates...
...Durham, North Carolina, it appears as though the public furor and media frenzy will finally be put to rest, but the tragic consequences of the Duke lacrosse rape case will sadly endure for decades. The prosecution was botched, mishandled by most of its participants and, blown wildly out of proportion by an overeager media. And worst of all, the case’s disastrous disintegration does violence to the atmosphere of discourse and privacy with regard to sexual abuse accusations in America. While accusations of rape on the part of an alleged victim must always be taken seriously, here that...
...Rather, studying history—like studying literature, philosophy, music, or any of the truly liberal arts—provides real moral edification. The great men and great deeds of the past, equally as much as its tragic figures and catastrophes, testify to the depth and richness of the human experience as much as the poetic fictions of Sophocles and Shakespeare. It is a richness that cannot be conveyed by the simplistic and narrow ideologies which are cloaked by the innocuous-sounding imperative of “global citizenship...
...unnecessary line of accusations made at an innocent and unknowing reader. It seems that in “Angelica,” the latest novel from Arthur Phillips ’90, the plot builds to such a point that there is nowhere to go but to a tragic stand-still. Perhaps that’s why he recycles the plot three times from the perspective of different characters, and then chooses to leave things in the stylistically most awkward of places: the defensive hands of the bored reader. Constance Barton is haunted by the fear of death through childbirth...