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...program. So it’s understandably frustrating to lose, and lose often, and so I can see why you might feel that Columbia football is disrespected by other schools, and by your own newspaper and administration.But the real reason I’m writing this is not to defend you. It’s to warn you, or fairly appraise you of what I (and many of my football-writing colleagues) can and can’t do.I can recognize zone coverage. I can recognize man-to-man, and I recognize blitzes. I know that as a punt returner...
...banking records. The separation of church and state no longer exists because politicians have imposed their beliefs on the public. The right to a fair trial exists only as long as we are not secretly flown to Guantánamo Bay or a secret prison. I can no longer defend my country's policies. I hope the world understands that the Republicans are not representative of all the American people. Christine Buxton Geneva Equal Time I had to laugh at time's asking News Corp. chairman and ceo Rupert Murdoch if Fox News had done anything that he thought...
...expose himself? Because, she thinks, he went in and confessed to the church and was granted absolution, which doesn't encourage one "to really punish yourself." In a way, that's also true of the visibly squirming Roger Cardinal Mahony, shown in a videotaped deposition as he tries to defend himself (and his church's wealth and power) from the scandal. Whether or not legal consequences derive from it, that footage alone makes Deliver Us from Evil one of the most powerful indictments of hypocrisy in high and trusted places you are ever likely...
...sold his late father's house near Basra and moved to his mother's ancestral home in a quiet, dusty town west of Baghdad: Fallujah. "We were sure that there would be no fighting there. The Americans would not attack it, and the Iraqi army would not bother to defend it," he recalls, "because there's nothing important in Fallujah. It was like an old car that nobody wanted." As Sunni Muslims, the family thought they would fit right into the Sunni-majority town...
WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL DOES NOT CHARGE BY THE HOUR Dick Cheney tells a conservative talk-show host that deciding to "dunk" detainees underwater to get information is a "no-brainer," which explains a lot about how the White House counsel came up with the rationale to defend such techniques to begin with...