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...Freetown nestled between coastline to the west and mountains to the east. Although much of Sierra Leone had been in the grips of civil war since 1991, the Edgar family never felt particularly threatened because they were reassured that Freetown was “as safe as can be?? because its security was reinforced by a prominent United Nations presence and a concentrated domestic military effort to safeguard the symbolic center of Sierra Leone’s political life. The evening news often recounted rebel attacks and the Edgar family opposed the rebels because, though they fought against...
...vacation, but the move from war-torn Africa to the American south would prove difficult for him. “I had always wanted to live in the United States”, Edgar recalls, “but it wasn’t all it was cut out to be??but at least for the first time in a long while I felt completely safe?...
From my work place on the Hill, I could see the Capitol. When I went to other offices, to meetings, to seminars, I would look out the window and there it would be??the Capitol. Not the fake image they stick behind Darryl Hammond or whoever happens to be playing the president now on “Saturday Night Live,” but the actual Capitol dome. And when I looked at it, from home or work, I felt lighter, happier, inspired. I know it sounds hackneyed, but the more I lived in Washington, and the more...
...state’s punishment for the same offense? Certainly someone must pay for the murder of an innocent woman or man. But who? The judge and jury? The lawyers and police? All of us? From the sheer number of wrongly convicted citizens, we know that innocent people will be??and have been—executed. If we allow this atrocity to continue, we do so with the same blood-stained hands as Timothy McVeigh or Susan Smith. By allowing capital punishment, we seal the fate of far more innocent people than any one person could kill alone...
...irreverent, comical and often very intense look at the portrayal of lesbianism from the first days of cinema. Beware these history lessons are not for the faint at heart. The film contains such strong and explicit sexual content that it borders on pornography, which can be??potentially offensive to all audiences...