Many lives lost in Iraq today. “Останови! Идут, идут испуганные тучи, Закат в крови! Закат в крови! Из сердца кровь струится! Плачь, сердце, плачь… Покоя нет! Степная кобылица Несется вскачь!” – Александр Блок.
Category Archives: Bad News
Because I almost forgot. Thanks for reminding me, Ali.
From “The Fourth State of Matter”
“There are stars and stars and stars. The sky is full of dead men, drifting in the blackness like helium balloons.” – Jo Ann Beard.
Remember all the victims at VT; Remember Liviu Librescu
Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, died saving his students this past Monday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. “A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.” – Elie Wiesel.
How strange and sad
When I watched the news on Virginia Tech last night, I was reminded of Jo Ann Beard’s nonfiction essay: “The Fourth State of Matter.” In 1991, there was a mass murder at the University of Iowa. The perpetrator was a graduate student named Gang Lu; he was in the Physics Department, where Beard was managingContinue reading “How strange and sad”
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