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Kevorkian knows firsthand about loss of control. "Our mother suffered from cancer," says his sister Margo Janus. "I saw the ravages right up to the end. Her mind was sound, but her body was gone. My brother's option would have been more moral than all the Demerol that they poured into her, to the point that her body was all black and blue from the needle marks. She was in a coma, and she weighed only 70 lbs. Even then I said to the doctor, 'This isn't right, to keep her on IV,' but he shrugged his shoulder...
Svenson provides an intriguing account of the battle. He gradually reveals its specific details through powerful firsthand accounts and battlefield reports. One of his most striking sources is the diary of a Confederate Major, who narrates the events up to the middle of the battle when he himself is shot and killed while writing. Others include the memoirs of Confederate General Isaac Trimble, the 68-year-old unlikely hero of the Confederate victory and General John Fremont, the Union commander whose miscalculations and lack of offense caused his army to lose the battle to a Confederate opponent half its size...
...motorman, and would ride Sabio's route with him. "He didn't show me an ID card or anything like that," Sabio later told a reporter, "but there was nothing in his mannerisms that made me think he was anything but another motorman." By riding with Sabio, Keno learned firsthand how to drive the trains, what tools he needed to release a train's brakes and how to talk to a conductor...
...liberals have basically been in opposition mode since around 1966, halfway through L.B.J.'s second term (except perhaps for a week or two in 1977 at the beginning of the Carter Administration). For most, that period covers their entire politically aware lives. Many are too young to have experienced firsthand the euphoria of J.F.K.'s Camelot, but are now too old and world-weary to join the twentysomethings who swoon unselfconsciously without shame for Bill Clinton...
...that Serb forces were attacking the settlements around Cerska and Srebrenica and driving out the villagers. "Civilians, women, children and old people are being killed, usually by having their throats cut," reported the High Commissioner, Sadako Ogata. In fact Ogata, like other U.N. officials and foreign journalists, had no firsthand knowledge of what was happening. The world was relying on what ham-radio operators in the Muslim towns were broadcasting. But, she said, "if only 10% of the information is true, we are witnessing a massacre...