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...declared an enemy of students. All that is necessary evidence to understand this fact is that he personally ordered the shooting of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Now think of poor, dead Deng, all cooped up in his glass casket. There is no need to weep for him, America...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Enemies of Students | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...students. All that is necessary evidence to understand this fact is that he may as well have personally ordered the shooting of anti-war protesters at Kent State in 1970. Now think of poor, dead Nixon, all cooped up in his wooden casket. There is no need to weep for him, America...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Enemies of Students | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...Ennis Cosby is a tragedy, unquestionably, but others will die a similar death in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington. Will those deaths incite the nation to show outrage against violence? When will we realize that these victims had fathers, mothers, siblings? We have lost our ability to weep for faceless, nameless victims. They deserve our sympathy as much as celebrities do. MICHAEL TIMOTHY WATERMAN Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...astonishingly quick study. He is sweet and graceful with small audiences. He works like a horse. He can weep on demand. He has spasms of inspiration. He blows up at the right people at the right times. He is capable of the grand and tasteful gesture. He is the student-government president who was elected overwhelmingly because no one else in school could do the job as well, or no one else wanted it--thus the opinion polls approving of his "performance." Yet he gets under people's skin as perhaps no other President ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INAUGURAL BILL | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...black and often tucks a single plastic flower in it. No one is allowed to imitate the style in her presence. Indeed, no one is allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother. She rarely smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLOBO, MIRA AND THEIR WILD BROOD | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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