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...studying medicine. With time, I came to realize that those noble goals got marginalized in the face of the group's ambitions of expansion, influence, power, élitism and worship of its founder. In those eight years, I lost one of the most fundamental possessions a human being has: freedom. After I left, I realized I also lost something else: my faith. Carlos Valladares, M.D. Linkoping, Sweden A General Disagreement I don't care how many generals have joined Lieut. General Greg Newbold in criticizing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Iraq's actions were not "peripheral to the real threat," as Newbold...
...Your father's team tends to become your team, end of story. We Americans are blissfully liberated from the weight of such history. When we become passionate about international football, we have the luxury of choosing our allegiances, of falling in love with whichever club suits us best. This freedom means that you will never tether yourself to an eternally hopeless bottom-dwelling club - unless that's your masochistic bent. You can pick a club that squares with your identity - be it gritty and hardworking, or champagne flash. This was, indeed, a beautiful freedom ? until this month. I had adopted...
...many families in Baghdad, the only way to deal with those dangers is somehow to limit exposure to them. People venture outside only to replenish dwindling supplies of food, cooking gas and fuel for generators. Some Iraqis no longer send their children to school. The only new freedom they can savor is access to satellite television...
...life in Iraq better now than it was under Saddam Hussein? Some things have improved: Iraqis have the vote, the right to express their political opinions, an unfettered media, freedom to travel, even something of a consumer boom. But they also have to live with acute shortages of such everyday essentials as gasoline and electricity--and security. And how much better can life be when so many new kinds of death stalk the streets...
...appalled to learn that Iraqi girls who are kidnapped are not always taken back by their families and are sometimes even killed. How can a society that does not value equality, freedom and justice embrace our version of democracy? Iraqis play by a completely different set of rules. Why do I, a stay-at-home mom with one year of college, realize that, when the top people in Washington do not? CASSANDRA HAGEDORN Grand Rapids, Mich...