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...pursuits with community service. At 19, Wellstone married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Ison, the daughter of Kentucky coal miners, and, after getting his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, moved to Minnesota to teach at Carleton College. It was there, in 1974, that he had his first brush with politics; informed by the college administration that he would not be retained owing to his poor publishing record, he rallied students and professors to protest on his behalf. He won tenure...
...with the brush of international terrorism is not only incorrect; it's disastrous political mistake. Putin is not saying we have a problem in Chechnya that has to be resolved. He's saying simply these are international terrorists that have to be eliminated. But what he's ignoring is the frightening reality on the ground that many young Chechens have come to believe they have nothing to lose, that they're going to die by age 30 and that they want to go down fighting, hoping to kill as many Russians as they can. The 50 people who seized...
...scene of the boy's shooting, police stumbled upon a trove of clues. A matted area in the brush opposite the school suggested that the sniper had lain in wait for his victim. Police also found a tarot "death" card with the message "Mister Policeman, I am God." The card, which may turn out to be a prank by someone familiar with the Vietnam War habit of leaving calling cards on the bodies of Viet Cong, was sent to the feds to be analyzed for fingerprints and DNA. The card, it would later be reported, also contained a request...
...Despite its dismal threads of crushed self-esteem, anxiety and loneliness, "One Hundred Demons" is one of the prettiest books I have seen. Barry has a charming, appropriately childish cartooning style that belies the amount of work she must put into each page. Bright watercolors fill in the brush lines and each vignette gets a carefully collaged title page, often containing artifacts from the story thereafter. Even when you close the book, the colored pages create a rainbow around the edge. Perfect for comix novices, the easy-to-read layout has just two big panels on each wide page. Barry...
...what exactly is the problem with this year’s defensive unit? Well, far be it from me to individually rake players over the coals, so let me speak in broad brush strokes—Harvard can’t stop the pass and it can’t stop the run. And as funny as that sounds, it’s what the numbers tell...