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...know what roles Muslims should play in our military, but perhaps counseling veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan should not be one of them. Fair or not, I would not have wanted to talk to an Army psychiatrist of Vietnamese descent when I came home from Vietnam in 1970. Bruce W. Rider, Captain, U.S. Air Force (ret.) GRAPEVINE, TEXAS...
...what roles Muslims should play in our military, but perhaps counseling veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan should not be one of them [Nov. 23]. Fair or not, I would not have wanted to talk to an Army psychiatrist of Vietnamese descent when I came home from Vietnam in 1970. Bruce W. Rider, Captain, U.S. Air Force (ret.) Grapevine, Texas...
...back further. An early example is K.W. Jeter's 1979 novel Morlock Night, a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine in which the Morlocks travel back in time to invade 1890s London. Steampunk--Jeter coined the name--was already an established subgenre by 1990, when William Gibson and Bruce Sterling introduced a wider audience to it in The Difference Engine, a novel set in a Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron, who had escaped death in Greece...
...care about tightening gun-control laws or limiting a woman's right to choose. She tries to project a muscular toughness, as Hillary Clinton did, with plans to fire 40,000 state employees and constant talk about her "spine of steel." "Sarah Palin almost ruined it for women," says Bruce Cain, executive director of the University of California Washington Center. "But Hillary Clinton did wonders. If you want to run, you want to be like Hillary. You want to know your stuff cold." (See pictures of wildfires in California...
...profile like Zazi's, say experts on terrorism, may be the exception rather the rule for jihadists who are recruited on North American soil. "Historically, the idea that terrorists come from [poor and quasi-literate] backgrounds is a complete myth," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "They are much more likely to be well-educated and come from middle-class and wealthy families." (See the Fort Hood massacre in the top 10 news stories...