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...that “false and defamatory” statements as well as “sensationalized quotes” had “unfairly soiled the reputation of an individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time...
...Iraq is called a war, but for the U.S. it?s really a police action (our official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally...
...only connection I felt to Irwin was that we were both fathers and husbands. So, like many people, I first thought about his wife Terri, daughter Bindi and son Bob. Irwin was foremost a family man. His working life-or that part of it open to public view-was enmeshed with kin, three generations of the clan riding in the Team Irwin prime mover, sharing the same passions and one another's company. But the genuine shock and sadness of parents and kids as the news spread in my children's playground after school last Monday told me that Irwin...
...telephone call that announced the ban of Iran's foremost independent daily, Shargh, came late this morning. "I have good news for you," said Mohammad Atrianfar, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, putting the receiver down and taking a calm sip of tea. "We've been shut down." I happened to be in his office at the time, waiting to talk about Iran's nuclear confrontation with the West. Shargh has bravely broadened debate here about the issue, publishing critics of the government's hardline stance and informing Iranians that such radicalism carries high costs. The closure, suggests Atrianfar...
...that doesn't sound annoying yet, it will soon. At his first meeting with reporters after returning from the five-week August recess Tuesday, for example, House majority leader John Boehner opened by saying, "We are going to continue our focus first and foremost on security, whether it is national security, homeland security or border security. I think the American people want to know that their safety and security needs are being addressed and Republicans have made and will continue to make that our number one priority." The Democrats, not to be outdone, have chosen as their constant theme this...