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...paid relatives of the victims $2,500 for each of the 15 dead civilians, plus smaller payments for the injured. But nothing can bring back all that was taken from 9-year-old Eman Waleed on that fateful day last November. She still does not comprehend how, when her father went in to pray with the Koran for the family's safety, his prayers were not answered, as they had been so many times in the past. "He always prayed before, and the Americans left us alone," she says. Leaving, she grabs a handful of candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collateral Damage or Civilian Massacre in Haditha? | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...abortion, but barely 2% go forward after they are counseled about the nature of fetal development. ?We do not know the cost to our society,? the report states, from ?the pain and anger resulting from abortion, but we fear it is far worse than what we are able to comprehend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is an Abortion Not an Abortion? | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...fall of 2003, none of that seemed possible. A crash with another skater in a corner of the Olympic Oval in Calgary left Klassen with a horrific gash in her forearm. Lying on the ice in shock, Klassen didn't fully comprehend her predicament until she began to read the expressions on the faces of the skaters and coaches surrounding her. A blade had severed tendons, an ulnar nerve and, most dangerously, a major artery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skating Into History | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...implored, “If you feel angry with the way the world is, you need to hear Raymond Lotta.” I am angry with the way the world is—specifically with how a rather sizable religious tradition doesn’t seem even to comprehend the notion of free expression—but somehow I don’t think that’s what the poster is referring to.All these events, altogether typical and expected in a Harvard context, bespeak an ironic myopia with America. Ironic, because the more important and less understood object...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Silences That Speak Volumes | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...British Prime Minister Chamberlain as a symbol of “peace in our time.” However, a fallacy lies beneath this analogy: where ambiguous art is celebrated, countries with vague intentions certainly are not. The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actor that seems not to comprehend this impossibility. Its flirtatious relationship with nuclear proliferation has the dialectic of a Greek tragedy, and it might end as one worthy of Aeschylus, with extreme violence...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Iran’s (Artistic) Ambitions | 2/2/2006 | See Source »

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