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...horrific nature of the crime and the fact that it remains unsolved account for part of its persistent hold on our collective memory. But it has-or can be made to have-a heavy symbolic resonance as well. Post-World War II Los Angeles had about it a dark glamour. People were reading noirish novels (and seeing the movies based upon them) that had been created just prior to and during the war. The city was still digesting a huge and largely ill-favored population increase-people had flooded in to take jobs in booming wartime industry. It was policed...
When I logged on to my Facebook account early Tuesday morning, I was pretty sure I was hallucinating. My home screen was filled with odd factoids about my friends’ comings and goings. Mary had just broken up with her boyfriend. Bob was no longer single. Evan had written on Jill’s wall, “I hate you and your...
...ruling, Garney simply stated, "Certification by the Attorney General is required for aliens detained either on account of serious adverse foreign policy consequences or on account of security or terrorism concerns." Nor did the government detain Posada under any "special circumstances" that, under the Patriot Act, would have allowed prolonged detention beyond the six months established previously by the Supreme Court. Many observers viewed the fact that Garney issued his ruling on September 11 as a not-so-subtle rebuke of the Bush Administration, which he seems to feel is saddling the courts with a job that is really...
...peace. Some settlements in the West Bank should be handed over. Those which fit the stereotype of a few houses in the center of a Palestinian area should be compromised. But the many often-misunderstood-settlements like Gilo and the rest of the Jerusalem belt must be taken into account. While Palestinians need land, Israelis cannot be expected to just leave and abandon the benefits of their hard labor over the last two generations. Just as it is unthinkable here that the United States should give back Texas or Arizona to Mexico, it is nearly unthinkable that Israel should give...
Carroll was working as a freelance reporter in Baghdad this year when Sunni Muslim insurgents kidnapped her on Jan. 7, according to Carroll’s account in the Christian Science Monitor...