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...Viet Nam has left tragic wounds on the U.S. But the U.S. half destroyed Viet Nam. The Americans came to this land when they were not invited. The Americans did here something that cannot be tolerated by people of conscience. That is why I would say that the Americans are morally and materially responsible for Viet Nam. People of conscience are always responsible...
SOMETIMES, WHEN YOU'RE in a conversation with some friends, someone will say something so unfunny, or just so stupid, that the entire group will pause in a stunned and tragic silence. Imagine 90 minutes of such conversation. Imagine filming the conversation; splicing in scenes of gratuitous and senseless violence. Now charge admission...
...life is disjointed, interrupted by several wars and numerous financial difficulties. To put it simply, no one knew him very well. Secondly, Capa was a secure photographer but an insecure man who bordered on ridiculous in his self-aggrandizement. These two factors, in addition to his early and tragic death, have created the myth of Robert Capa, a photo...
That belief was shared by at least one West European leader, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who declared in an interview with TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave, "This act of Israel's was either a tragic error or a deliberate maneuver to strike at the evolution of the (peace process)." Craxi said that the Israelis themselves had told him that Arafat was risking his life by talking peace. Thus, the Prime Minister continued, "the Israelis could not have failed to calculate that this action would liquidate the Jordanian- Palestinian peace initiative." He said he hoped the P.L.O. would not return...
...give Scott. Harvard goes on as usual without him, as does Massachussets, as does the U.S. But perhaps, for a moment, some people at Harvard might think about his life and his death, and then maybe think about their own lives. That, I hope, will be his grandeur, his tragic dignity...