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...years old. I'm tired of running." So the next day, instead of taking Greyhound south, he went to his parole officer. He walked into her cubicle, as hundreds of others have, sweating, shaking, wondering if he would leave in handcuffs. But after he agreed to commit to a drug-treatment program and stay clean, he got a second chance. "He wants to do the right thing," said officer Thersea Fedrick. "I just don't think he has many friends or many different lifelines...
When 15-year-old Charles Bishop commandeered a small plane on Jan. 5, his family's ghosts may have been seated beside him. In 1984, before he was born, his parents attempted twice to commit suicide together--once trying to stab each other--because they were denied a marriage license (his mother was then only 17). In 1986 they had Charles and got married, but divorced soon after when his father became an abusive husband. Charles and his mother moved around the country, and during the Gulf War she changed their name to Bishop to rid them of his father...
...current military detention of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners in a camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has raised a number of questions concerning the American government’s commitment to preserving the civil rights of Afghani detainees. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld made a less-than-reassuring statement that the Pentagon intends to “for the most part, treat them in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva conventions, to the extent they are appropriate.” More certainty than this is needed. The U.S. must commit to treating the prisoners of this...
...survivors get older, it's not just the long-term mentally ill who suffer. At Abarbanel, 70 Holocaust survivors with no history of psychological disorder were brought in last year, mostly for depression. New research by Abarbanel psychiatrists finds that Holocaust survivors are 40% more likely to commit suicide than other old people. Though 1,200 survivors die in Israel each year, the Finance Ministry estimates it will still be making payments to the rest for another 30 years. The final chapter will be long, but perhaps easier than those that went before. At least some of the survivors with...
Despite forcing the Tiger ball-control offense to commit an uncharacteristically-high 12 turnovers in the first half, the Crimson trailed 24-19 at the break, due largely to a poor 27-percent shooting effort...