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...spring, when it was discovered that several Iraqi civilians in Haditha had not been killed by an Improvised Explosive Device, as a Marine press release claimed, but instead had been killed by Marines. The dead, most of them killed in their homes, included women and children. Doubt has been cast on the Marines' claim that they were responding to what they believed to be an insurgent attack, and on whether any of the Iraqi dead were even armed...
...allow the President to eavesdrop for the same reason it doesn't allow him to deny a fair hearing to an imprisoned American citizen. Or something like that. The judge missed a perfect opportunity to mention the Supreme Court's June decision in the Guantanamo Bay case, which cast serious doubt on the expansive view of war powers that the Administration argued for in this case. Oh, well...
...well as a re-creation of what it's like to walk down the street in New York. There could be a Hassidic Jew on your left mumbling things you can't understand and an Asian hipster on your right on his cell phone. It's a complete cast of characters saying things that are being thrown at you simultaneously...
Although pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to the shrines of Europe top the charts in popularity, almost any type of trip can be cast as faith-based travel, even white-water rafting. One of the most popular trips organized by the Windfall Outdoor Center in Maine is a run down the state's Kennebec River through rugged wilderness. The outing includes lunch and devotionals around a campfire. "What better place to talk about the beauty of God's creation," says Bob Chaffee, 50, who has taken his family on the rafting trip numerous times in the past 15 years...
...first time I asked myself that question was in the fall of 1980, a month or so after arriving on a campus that struck me as a version of heaven on earth. The buildings cast elaborate, Gothic shadows that I had never seen in the Midwest, where I had attended public high school and dreamed of someday going east to glory. My fellow classmates wore natty outfits that put my dull provincial threads to shame. They also spoke more impressively than I did, dropping the names of ancient Greek philosophers and contemporary French deconstructionists. What was a deconstructionist, exactly...