Word: arizona
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...Senator John McCain Republican of Arizona It is hard for people who have never seen combat to understand. Even for someone like me it's hard, because the kind of war I was involved in was antiseptic. I was in an airplane?you drop bombs, you see smoke, and you leave. It's different from being on the ground in the middle of the night with people trying to kill you. I can't question how he handled this. Everybody has to grapple with his own nightmares. I don't even know if he knows if he grappled with this...
...Venus; in Houston, Texas. Walker also flew on three other U.S. space shuttle missions, including the 1984 Discovery, which was the first successful attempt at retrieving satellites from orbit. DIED. ISAAC ("IKE") COLE, 73, jazz pianist and composer and brother of the late Nat ("King") Cole; in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Cole, who once considered changing his name to differentiate himself from his more famous brother, played keyboard on Unforgettable, the Grammy-winning 1992 tribute album by Nat's daughter Natalie Cole...
...Eulogy The City of Brotherly Love doesn't generally weep for brothers who love and leave it, but REV. LEON SULLIVAN was a towering, 2-m exception. Though he grew up in West Virginia, died in Arizona and is best-known globally for his antiapartheid crusading and ties to Martin Luther King Jr., it was in 1960s Philadelphia that the proud but pragmatic pastor of Zion Baptist Church preached, perfected and first put into action his message that "black power without green power is no power." In North Philly, that meant pooling black parishioners' greenbacks to build grocery stores...
...largest experiment of all, California voters last November passed Proposition 36. Modeled after a vanguard policy in Arizona (see box), it is expected to divert some 100,000 first- and second-time drug offenders from prisons into rehab over the next three years. "California's Proposition 36 highlights the disgust many feel for our current system," says Rocky Anderson, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, which has been dealing with a spate of heroin overdose deaths. "Punitive policies, at tremendous taxpayer expense, are an unmitigated failure." Anderson and like-minded officials are sending a message to the White...
...however familiar the scene, the criminals in Judge Colleen McNally's courtroom have little to fear. They are first offenders, convicted of possessing drugs for personal use--not of dealing--and, as such, benefit from a groundbreaking Arizona statute barring their imprisonment. McNally's sentences are about rehabilitation, even repentance. Part shrink, part scold, McNally rules with revivalist fervor. "You're going to get a lot out of this journey," she tells a woman sentenced to counseling and urine testing. The audience is invited to clap--and they do so, loudly--as she praises a man who has stayed clean...