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...away and search him for weapons. He grabbed the man by the belt and started pulling him under an overhang. A machine gun opened up from the roof across the street, and bullets hit the dirt around Vazquez's feet. The gunman's body was stuck on the curb. "Leave him, leave him," shouted a soldier. Still Vazquez persevered, getting the man onto the sidewalk and out of the line of fire. Vazquez patted him down, taking a set of prayer beads out of the dying man's pocket and placing them in his left hand...
...Madeleine Albright" [INTERVIEW, Sept. 22], I have another one for the former U.S. Secretary of State. If Bush is doing such a poor job in the fight against terrorism, why hasn't there been another terrorist attack in the U.S.? Albright and her State Department team failed to curb terrorism in the same way they failed to capture Osama bin Laden when they had the chance in Sudan. LARRY WHITEHURST Mount Horeb...
...have another one for the former U.S. Secretary of State. If Bush is doing such a poor job in the fight against terrorism, why hasn't there been another terrorist attack in the U.S.? Albright and the rest of her team at the State Department failed to curb terrorism in the same way they failed to capture Osama bin Laden when they had the chance in Sudan. Larry Whitehurst Mount Horeb...
...does Ashcroft owe his job to the administration he is investigating; he is also indebted to Karl Rove, whom he hired for three of his campaigns in Missouri. Moreover, Ashcroft has proven his willingness to politicize the office of Attorney General by interfering in local courts in order to curb plea bargaining and encourage the use of the death penalty, as well as by personally campaigning for the USA Patriot...
...afraid enough to read Yeats and think civilization is coming to an end—is truly terrifying. Terrorists create such fear, among individuals and nations, with the precise hope of driving us into a cycle of violence; it is up to leaders to undo this damage, to curb the terrific destructive power of fear itself...