Are this week’s Middle East talks already in jeopardy?
August 13, 2013
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Abby Ohlheiser reports for The Atlantic:
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Memorial Day: I had a simple impulse to cut into the earth
May 27, 2013
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The Vietnam War Memorial, designed by Maya Lin when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University, sparked controversy when it opened in 1982, but
Memorial Day: Ike
May 27, 2013
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Memorial Day is a time to honor those who have died fighting in our nation’s wars. It is also a time to reflect on where
Memorial Day: remembrance
May 27, 2013
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For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell is a meditation on the memorial to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment,
Memorial Day: coming home
May 27, 2013
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Shut Out the Lights, a taut, evocative song about a Vietnam vet returning home by Bruce Springsteen
Memorial Day: being there
May 27, 2013
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Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner reads two of his poems, including The Hurt Locker, which you can read along with him here.
Memorial Day: death in the sky
May 27, 2013
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner By Randall Jarrell From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly
Memorial Day: losses
May 27, 2013
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More than 600,000 men and women have lost their lives in our country’s twelve major wars.
Harvard students reflect on a week of marathon terror
April 22, 2013
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“I am trying to accept that it is okay to feel conflicted and confused at times like this. That is part of what makes us human. And it is in these moments that we can reach out to God and feel the Holy Spirit. The Lord is with us in green pastures and he leads us beside still waters. The Lord also walks us through the valley of the shadow of death with his rod and his staff. And sometimes we are not sure whether we are in the green pastures or the valley of death’s shadow.
Desmond Tutu: ‘God is weeping’ over the plight of Syrians
March 25, 2013
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Desmond Tutu today issued an impassioned plea to the international community to take action on behalf of Syria. From the Elders Blog:
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