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...Americans go to war in Iraq because of a massive failure by our intelligence agencies, or a giant blunder by the Bush Administration? In either case, we should be appalled. The war has cost the lives of hundreds of young men and women and tens of billions of dollars. Any sane and humane society should consider it criminal behavior. Daniel A. Welch Rochester Hills...
...notes, form a priceless ethnographic collection at Museum Victoria.) They document the vanished world of a self-sufficient and proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff poses? of Aborigines like clan leader Wonggu: lively, strong people, clearly at ease with the photographer. Back in Melbourne, Thomson urged segregation for the region - to no avail, despite his warnings about European and Japanese fishermen...
...men’s giant slalom, freshman Daniel Tsai finished his season on a strong note, finishing in 43rd with a time of 2:07.78. Freshman Eric Ode was 58th with a time of 2:19.03. Captain Matt Perone did not complete his second...
...economic party like this one has its hangovers, such as BOSS, or burnout stress syndrome, another Valley-like feature now found in Bangalore. When Ranit Bhalla, 25, a software engineer, joined tech giant Wipro four years ago, the work was so intense he often found himself sleeping and even bathing at the office. "For most of us who pushed hard to get ahead, we lived, ate and breathed our jobs," he says. After six months of 16-hour workdays, 3 a.m. dinners and gastric problems, his exhausted body finally gave out. He spent 15 days in a hospital and then...
...hospital, founded on the site of an 1869 mill fire that killed scores of child laborers. But it is also sometimes fresh, wry and even wacky. Rickman's first visitor from the other side, as he lies broken bodied on the shoulder of a country road, is a giant anteater, who offers to serve as Rickman's guide in unraveling the mystery of Kingdom's haunting. The beast warns Rickman to conserve his strength and watch for the hospital's wandering ghost girl--and licks off an ant crawling across Rickman's face. "Yum!" says the spirit creature. "Ant-solutely...