In his 40th and final column for The Sun, former Sun Associate Editor Tony Manfred '11 analyzes our generation's reaction to Osama bin Laden's death and, in a postscript, plays the sentimental card.

Elias Wynshaw '14 intelligently questions the significance of Osama bin Laden's death and weighs in on the nature of Americans' reactions to it. 

After learning that Osama bin Laden, the terrorist behind the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed by U.S. forces, Cornellians erupted in celebration on campus and throughout Collegetown.

President Barack Obama is expected to speak to the nation shortly to announce that Osama bin Laden is dead. The United States has custody of bin Laden's body, according to news sources. The U.S. has hunted for bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, in Afghanistan and Pakistan for nearly ten years.

The Cornell Convocation Committee made another disappointing speaker selection for 2011. Do not fear, Class of 2012, the Berry Patch is here to help you avoid the same pitfall.

So before I do my magic, and tell you about the hilarity that is this week’s South Park satire, I want to set the record straight. I don’t understand what people mean when they say, “It’s a Jersey thing.” Not everyone in New Jersey uses spray tanning lotion, relatively few girls actually wear the “poof,” and only a few men wear those ridiculous gold chains (but no more than anywhere else). 

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof. Other Pakistani officials and a U.S. counterterrorism official said they thought the al-Qaida chief is alive.

U.S. officials said bin Laden is most likely hiding in the mountains along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, in particular the lawless tribal regions.

"We continue to believe that bin Laden is alive," said the U.S. official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record.

Reports of bin Laden's death or of near-captures have punctuated his years on the run since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, only to be seemingly debunked by periodic audio and video recordings.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Salim Hamdan pleaded with a military jury to spare him from a life in prison, apologizing Thursday for the "innocent people" who died in the Sept. 11 attacks and saying he worked as Osama bin Laden's driver only because he needed a job.

Prosecutors asked for a sentence of no less than 30 years, asking the six Pentagon-appointed jurors to make an example of him.

The jury convicted Hamdan, a Yemeni man with a fourth-grade education, of aiding terrorism by chauffeuring bin Laden around Afghanistan at the time of the 2001 attacks. But Hamdan said he merely had a "relationship of respect" with bin Laden, as would any other employee.