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Some supporters of a memorial to these Confederate soldiers claim that the mere passing of time makes such a tribute feasible. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., once pointed out, time is neutral. Has the passing of 130 years decreased the sordid nature of treason and slavery...
...argue that sponsoring a course on the history of Harvard would simply encourage students to pat each other on the back and indulge in a moment of silent prayer and thanksgiving that they did not end up in New Haven or Princeton, New Jersey. They argue further that the mere fact that so many prominent figures in the American past attended Harvard signifies very little; Harvard was simply the elite "place to be." In short, to its critics, such a course would be an extended session of self-aggrandizing name-dropping...
...that a discussion of those names on our buildings is mere name-dropping denies what seems the most obvious dimension of any list: the commonality of the names appearing on it. Harvard, through the values and methods of evaluating the world it instilled in its graduates, has shaped those who passed through it even as they have shaped it--sometimes because they embraced those values and methods, and often because they rebelled against them. Harvard as an institution has affected American history simply because of the colorful personalities it has touched. How many know of the circumstances, also recounted...
...mere misery that defeated Walesa. Kwasniewski's appeal was more to youth and the future than to the stern stability of the communist past. His movie-star good looks and pleasant manner contrasted with a graying, truculent Walesa, who directed his appeal to a Polish Catholic conservatism that is going out of style. "It's more true that Walesa lost the election than that Kwasniewski won it," says Bronislaw Geremek, chairman of the Sejm's Foreign Affairs Committee...
...enlarged heart. The autopsy also revealed that the skater had suffered a heart attack in the 24 hours before his death, but given his stoic nature and his high threshold of pain--he often skated with shoulder and back miseries--Grinkov might have brushed off the attack as mere discomfort. Indeed, the essence of his genius on the ice was that he sublimated his own presence to highlight the beauty of Gordeeva. "He was totally devoted to her," said JoJo Starbuck, a former U.S. pairs champion who has worked with G and G, "and she would look at him with...