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...300th anniversary of Harvard College, in September 1968, the bell rang 300 times early in the morning, before the usual 9 a.m. bell. On Sept. 11, 2001, the bell tolled to call the University to a multi-faith vigil for the lives lost as a result of the terrorist attack, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...families' grief and rage are hardly surprising. But it is not callous to wonder why?besides simple compassion?this story, like cave-in and child-down-a-well stories in the past, moved America to hold an electronic vigil. Soldiers are killed in Iraq, for instance, every week. They are no less brave, and their families grieve no less. But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast...
...mourners organized a candlelight vigil for the 12 coal miners who died following Monday's underground explosion, leaders of the company that owns the troubled mine held a press conference and described the mishaps that resulted in the false report of the mens' survival. Yet while company officials spent an hour and a half explaining what went wrong-and apologizing for the miscommunications-they wouldn't answer a question at the heart of the tragedy: why did the number of safety violations at the mine nearly triple since their firm, International Coal Group (ICG), bought the Sago mine and reopened...
...needs to leave,” Herr said. “He is around too many people who are too different from him and cannot handle it.” Students from all faiths and ethnicities at Columbia have joined in a protest and candlelight vigil, according to Oki, Herr, and Rubin-Vega. Representatives from Harvard’s Black Students Association (BSA) and the BGLTSA also responded to the Columbia incident has also touched them. BSA President Nneka C. Eze ’07 said she e-mailed her Columbia counterpart, Oki, last Friday morning, and the two have...
...person he was.” Ettinger said that Lawrence rarely talked about his plans for the future, except to discuss the different lessons and values he hoped to teach his children. On the Friday night of Lawrence’s death, friends and family members held a candlelit vigil outside the chapel in Boston University’s Marsh Plaza, placing pictures of Lawrence and his girlfriend Teberian on the plaza’s “Free at Last” statue. For more than an hour, they stood in silence to honor and remember...