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...even though the stakes had changed. I salute them and those who are making similar sacrifices. John D. Wooters Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. Your report on the class of' 05 tragically illustrates how history tends to repeat itself. Today another young, idealistic generation is being fed into a vague, brutal war machine by an arrogant, self-righteous U.S. Administration. Forty years ago, the West Point classes of the '60s were sent to Southeast Asia to fight an equally vague, brutal war, ostensibly to promote freedom in that region. Many of us who served there came back scarred and maimed...
...Socialists into power. In its report, the PP not only refutes criticism of its role, but accuses the Socialists of using the attack to force them out, suggesting that's exactly what the terrorists wanted. "The aim of the attack was not only to cause terror and provoke a brutal massacre, but to remove the PP from power in the elections," said Eduardo Zaplana, the PP parliamentary spokesman, quoting from the PP report. After the attack, he said, "The government kept the public informed at all times ? so long as it did not directly endanger the investigation." The emotional...
Your report on the class of '05 tragically illustrates how history tends to repeat itself. Today another young, idealistic generation is being fed into a vague, brutal war machine by an arrogant, self-righteous U.S. Administration. Forty years ago, the West Point classes of the '60s were sent to Southeast Asia to fight an equally vague, brutal war, ostensibly to promote freedom in that region. Many of us who served there came back scarred and maimed, and others did not return at all. The aims of our "glorious cause" were never achieved. May fate be kinder to the class...
...raise local spirits by dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything we have...
Kylleen Hargrave-Thomas, 53, has always claimed her innocence in the brutal stabbing murder of her boyfriend 14 years ago. In 2002, U.S. District Judge Paul Gadola overturned her conviction, saying her trial lawyers had been "manifestly and flagrantly ineffective." She was released, but last year a federal appeals court reversed the ruling. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take her case. Next week a judge will decide whether to revoke her bond. Unless Granholm intervenes to grant clemency, Hargrave-Thomas will probably go back to serving a life sentence...