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Man has the will
to grieve
a week and no longer.
Ever the stranger,
he will kill
with righteous anger.
What does he believe?
In his right to trade
a season of greed
for an hour
of love in an unlit corner.
Such is love’s power,
And such is his need
than which nothing is stronger.
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The Civil War
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James Fallows on Obama's first term, Raymond Bonner on the death penalty, Christopher Hitchens on G.K. Chesterton, and more
Browse back issues of The Atlantic that have appeared on the Web. From September 1995 to the present, the archive is essentially complete, with the exception of a few articles, the online rights to which are held exclusively by the authors.
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