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This is one of those vivid memories that you make, keep and then don't know what to do with: walking back form some busy, chatty evening function during Freshman Week 1990 (yes, they called us "freshmen" then), I looked up and for the first time saw Widener illuminated by floodlights...
...have any particularly vivid scene totalk about," Fallows says. "My recollections areall positive, but they're not detailed...
...Germans were confronting their countrymen's bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand, many Israelis were reluctant to relive it. "People here live the Holocaust," says Tel Aviv resident Noga Reshef, 29. "They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies, and every year there is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day. We can't escape the Holocaust; it sits on our shoulders." Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience. "I'm afraid of these movies," said Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time...
...aftershocks. "When you wake up on a Friday morning to a major news story like this one, you just automatically turn to George," says senior editor Johanna McGeary, who edited the Hebron stories. "He's the master at knitting together complex breaking stories with sharp analysis and vivid prose -- and he's the fastest man in the place on deadline...
...people whose most terrible and vivid collective memory is the Holocaust be expected to tolerate silence in the face of racism, the silence that only yesterday abetted genocide? On the other hand, how can a people whose most distinguished figures still suffer the sting of bigotry and whose less fortunate ones live in the ghettos of the 1990s -- places where public order is gone, where homicide is the leading cause of death among young men, and where parents bury their children every day -- how could such a people turn its back completely on an organization that it perceives...