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...9/11 finally focuses less on carnage than on people. There are the fire fighters of Engine 7, Ladder 1 (all of them, amazingly, survived), whom we meet as gruff wise guys and leave--through the Naudets' exclusive access to ground zero in the first days of the recovery operation--as war veterans. And there are the brothers, who shot tirelessly on Sept. 11, even though, until tearfully reunited that night, each believed the other was dead. "You have to do something," explains Gedeon. "You have to focus on your work, or you'll go crazy." In that way, on that...
Then, just as the sweaty bowling shoes were beginning to feel comfortable and we were averaging more than five pins per frame, it was time to go back to the bustling but banal hub that is Harvard Square. That normally wise man, Anon., who said that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” had clearly never returned to the Yard after having gone to Alewife. We had set out to find an all-American evening but had choked somewhat on our soggy fries; yet now we felt more alive than our high-class Harvard nights...
...have to wonder if he’ll make it last. Rocker probably wants what Williams hoped for in the closing pages of Loose Balls two years ago, as Mike Wise of the New York Times quoted yesterday: “I want people to look at me and say, ‘That’s a good man.’ Even the ones who say, ‘Isn’t that the guy who used to be so wild, who used to be drinking and fighting so much, who was always getting in trouble...
...article ignores differences in the realistic budgeting needs of these teams. Both forms of debate are valuable activities that administrators would be wise to fund generously...
...Reread the Gettysburg Address. Pondered its wise words, which speak to us still. Then, saw Crossroads...