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Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, pupils of Holy Cross--Roman Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11--got a brutal lesson in belief. To get to school, they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and within days escalated to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned, and a Catholic motorist--apparently reacting to stone-throwing attacks--struck and killed a Protestant teenager...
...American soil. But the victims of this tragedy are found not only in New York, Washington or Pennsylvania, but across America and throughout the world—those who have friends and family in the cities targeted, and those who have been emotionally and physically shaken by this brutal and unexplained violence. Yesterday’s events were an attack on the security of all Americans, and all Americans share the weight of mourning and the responsibility of assisting those most in need...
...Band Of Brothers, war is more than hell; war is real. No one is consumed by a pillowy fireball or gasps out a soliloquy before expiring. Men are shot in midsentence, drop like sacks of flour and die sloppily, whining like animals. This is war as it happened, brutal and random, and in re-creating it Brothers captures viscerally the extraordinary sacrifice of a generation of ordinary...
ARRESTED. NIKOLAY SOLTYS, 27, Ukrainian immigrant who was among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives; for the brutal murder of six of his family members; in Citrus Heights, Calif. Soltys' brother called police after spotting him in the family's backyard...
...back and forth, which is far too dangerous right now for most of those lucky enough to have eluded the Border Patrol once - and that cements the ties to home, and probably the southward flow of household capital, too. Politically, the current immigration regime is perceived by Mexicans as brutal, inhumane and an assault on their dignity, and that compounds a profound sense of resentment south of the border. The basic message Fox brought to Washington was that his is a new Mexico, and it wants the trust and respect...