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...were you affected by Hughes' death last year of a heart attack at age 59? I had been sort of living with John Hughes - his spirit, his words and his ideas - for so many years, I really felt like I knew him. His passing was heartbreaking. I was touched to see the incredible outpouring of emotion from people all over the world who talked about how he made their teenage years more bearable...
John F. Callahan, a humanities professor at Lewis and Clark College, was friends with Ellison during his lifetime. Ellison’s wife named him literary executor after the author’s death...
...Suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, a leadership vacuum and rapidly declining morale and discipline, four soldiers from the 1-502nd's 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, would perpetrate one of the worst war crimes known to have been committed by U.S. forces during the Iraq war, or any war for that matter. On March 12, 2006, Specialist Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker, Private First Class Jesse Spielman and Private First Class Steven Green raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamzah Rashid al-Janabi and murdered her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister...
...that the unit's soldiers were exhibiting, not to mention the increasing homicidal threat that Green was becoming to Iraqi civilians. As this first of two excerpts from TIME contributing editor Jim Frederick's new book, Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, demonstrates, Green should have been a soldier of concern for the unit's leadership from the day he reported for duty...
...Reprinted from Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death. Copyright ? 2010 by Jim Frederick. Published by Harmony Books, a division of Random House...