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...comedy, tragedy, music, philosophy, history and politics are all expressions of the reality that power and mortal men alike are to serve life. So your education is meant to give you insights into this cardinal fact that every other institution you encounter must desperately hide because it cannot destroy. An individual can encompass the whole only in dream--or in the heartache of life, which is a version of dream, but a version of dream we are obligated to make as true as we are able...

Author: By Hal Eskesen, | Title: A Letter of Advice to New Graduates | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Much of the 50-day battle of Normandy was a reinforcement race: Could the Germans bring in enough armored divisions to destroy the Allied army before it was strong enough to break out of the peninsula? By the beginning of July the Allies had landed more than 1 million troops, 566,000 tons of supplies and 171,000 vehicles. Having failed to drive the Allies back into the sea, Hitler chose to throw all he had into a decisive fight in Normandy rather than withdraw to another defense line along the Seine. But when U.S. forces under Bradley did finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: IKE'S INVASION | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...case proceeds, the main Clinton defense strategy is to depict Jones as a gold digger in the service of people out to destroy the Clinton presidency. "This is about money and book contracts, and radio and television appearances," Bennett says. It probably helps his case that a covey of Clinton haters have been the biggest promoters of the Jones story. Jones first made her charges during a February press conference at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, to which she was brought by Cliff Jackson, a Little Rock lawyer and full-time Enemy of Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Vs. the President | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...Thalidomide, which caused thousands of birth defects in the 1960s, may one day be used to prevent blindness. In laboratory tests, researchers learned that the drug stops abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye, which can destroy vision in people with diabetes and other disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: May 9, 1994 | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...They'll destroy damn Chicago, like every team should...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Poetry In Motion | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

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