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February 18, 2003
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Shuttle weariness "The risk became real, and the sacrifice that the word courageous implies became a painful recognition of the lives lost, the families devastated and our own faith challenged." As far as I can tell, this passage-which was written by the president of one of America's largest universities-makes sense up until the word "implies," and then not at all after that. Whose sacrifice is he talking about? The astronauts', you'd think-but then the sacrifice becomes a "recognition of the lives lost," and since a thing does not recognize its own loss... You can go crazy trying to figure this out.I often wonder if it's possible to communicate the point of this article without being so blisteringly negative. I'm sure it's possible, but it's probably way less fun for the author. [permalink | tb ] |
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