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...published as a book next May by Scribner's), the correspondence included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence. By contrast the G.I.s of the cold war, fighting in Korea and Vietnam, write letters of doubt and confusion, unsure whether dying in a Chosin Reservoir crater or Mekong Delta rice paddy for Old Glory made practical sense. Fear of death, however, permeates them all, no matter in which bloodstained decade they were composed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sometimes I really wonder how I will make it | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...donate to the ASG, potential contributors needed to print out a form from the website, write a check and mail it to Novak or Edelman. In contrast, Senior Gift volunteers could accept checks in person...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Few Seniors Choose Alternative Gift | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...fighting form. Even now, though, it's not as if I avoid modern amenities like e-mail and Entertainment Weekly. As a result, I still have real problems physically focusing on big things that are far away for more than a few seconds at a time. As I write this, for example, I sit fifty yards from a row of towering trees at the Cabot end of the Radcliffe Quad. When I try to train a steady gaze on them, however, my eyes quickly jump to lock on a short, scrawny sapling ten feet in front of me. Only with...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: The Long and the Short of It | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...Teachers will not write the show and writers will not be educators--it had to be a collaboration," said Chris Cerf, composer and lyricist for the show...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Chair Honors Big Bird's Creator | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

...Labor gnashed its teeth and tore its hair. Bill Clinton (with an assist from the Republicans, the ex-presidents and the economic good times) pulled a NAFTA encore and convinced America that free trade is still a good thing, and maybe convinced historians there'll be something good to write about him when he's gone. And it may well be the beginning of Democrats' realization that a majority of them are on the wrong side of a very expensive issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton and the GOP Win on China Trade Bill | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

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