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...death as in life, Sukarno was a problem. As Indonesia's deposed President last week succumbed at 69 after a long bout with kidney stones and high blood pressure, Djakarta's new leaders pondered the questions of how much to mourn him and how much to memorialize him. Indeed, many Indonesians were in a quandary over their bapak (father). Some felt that they should pay homage to him as the founding father who proclaimed Indonesia's independence in 1945 and spawned a sense of national identity. Others were prepared to damn him as the profligate...
...honor those who died in World War I and II. In those wars the United States fought by necessity, and the United States fought honorably. But today I cannot celebrate Memorial Day. I mourn for these who have lost their lives in the Vietnam...
...lobbying congressmen if you must, but act. Act with the danger of the GI and the sacrifice of the resister in mind and act as forcefully as your outrage dictates. Make today more meaningful by resolving that because of your efforts there won't be 5000 more to mourn for on the next Memorial...
...Quiver Queen, and Moonbeam McSwine (complete with an armful of randy piglets). Like most such houses, it has been reduced in recent years to skin flicks, separated by the geriatric gyrations of faded strippers. Now the Gayety is being torn down to make way for a parking lot. To mourn the moment, the town fathers brought Harold Minsky and his troupe from Las Vegas and persuaded Rose La Rose to come out of retirement. The result was simultaneously salacious and a much too respectable salute to a bygone...
That one of the patients finally succeeds in committing suicide is stark tragedy. That another has reached the point where he is able to mourn death sounds a call of hope. Who has never heard an inner voice beckoning him to acts of madness? David Sawyer's film pierces the darkness that results when other voices overwhelm the rational mind...