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Captain Erik Grimm was in his usual position at defensive end, but several of his fellow defensive starters—senior middle linebacker Matt Thomas, junior defensive tackle Mike Berg and senior cornerback Gary Sonkur—did not dress for the game...
...There is nothing anybody can do that can take away the nightmares." CORPORAL DUSTIN BERG, U.S. soldier sentenced last week to 18 months in prison for the killing of an Iraqi policeman. Berg, who shot himself in the stomach in an attempt to show that a gun battle had taken place, has been stripped of the Purple Heart he was awarded last year...
...Sept. 11 hijackers, left behind a note asserting that "it is enough for us to know that the Koran's verses are the words of the Creator of the Earth and all the planets." Atta highlighted the Koran's description of heaven. In 2004 the executioners of Nick Berg, an American contractor in Iraq, alluded on tape to a different Koranic passage: "Whoever kills a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy in the land, shall be regarded as having killed all mankind." The spirit of that verse forbids aggressive warfare, but the clause beginning with except...
...parent of three, Linklater can understand that instinct, but thinks it's sad. Losing, after all, is common, whether it's not getting to make the Texas high school football movie Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, second cousin of the book's author, got to make it), or having the western that you're still proud of bomb, or watching John Kerry lose an election. "Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it," he says...
Youngsters who get pregnant often have a history of feeling deprived and neglected. Many have been abused or raped. "Their getting pregnant has nothing to do with sex," observes Pat Berg, director of a Chicago program for homeless youth. "It's attempting in a perverse sense to get some security and nurturing needs met . . . It's like when kids get puppies." Finally, there is little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them...