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...suggested here doesn't work, at least the Bosnian Muslims will have been given what they want: the chance to fight on a leveled killing field. If a serious strategy isn't tried, then as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke says, history will confirm the verdict so far: "The failure to respond properly in this tragedy is the greatest collective failure of the West since the 1930s...
...magnitude of the human tragedy at Oklahoma City. The images of that day will forever be ingrained in the national consciousness: limbs and lives--and most terrifying of all, babies--strewn about in a smoldering pile of death. There is not, nor will there ever be, a bill or verdict powerful enough to undo the spectacular crime committed in Oklahoma City. But it is naive and irresponsible for our media and our political leaders to fail to address the substantive reasons for the bombing, rather than dwell on its admittedly catastrophc results...
Sometimes, the real world intrudes on lifehere, but current events rarely leave lastingmarks. As a first-year, I watched with uttersadness as my hometown, Los Angeles, went up inflames. Desperate to be involved, I attended avigil to mark the Rodney King verdict, but it onlymade me feel more helpless. After Oklahoma Citywas bombed in April, students talked about it inthe dining hall for a day or two, but that wasall...
Other events served to illuminate the resurgence of student anti-war spirit. One was the verdict in the long, sensational trial of the Chicago Seven--seven war protesters who were accused of conspiring to incite a riot when they demonstrated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
About 15,000 gathered in Boston on what came to be known as The Day After--February 19, 1970--to voice their criticism of the verdict...