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...Because history never stops being written. Because Kerrey is a politician, a public figure respected for his candor, a certified war hero who survived grievous wounds, a man who once sought and may again seek the presidency. And because the ambiguity of his experience reminds us that good men did terrible things in Vietnam, making us examine what it means when honor is peeled away from...
...culmination of this renewed poise on the ice came in the second game of the sweep. Perhaps a Harvard squad that was having less luck accomplishing its goals late in the season would have been rattled by the grievous officiating and Yale insurgence in the third period...
Much has been written about what South African Judge Edwin Cameron, himself HIV positive, calls his country's "grievous ineptitude" in the face of the burgeoning epidemic. Nowhere has that been more evident than in the government's failure to provide drugs that could prevent pregnant women from passing HIV to their babies. The government has said it can't afford the 300-rand-per-dose, 28-dose regimen of azt that neighboring nations like Botswana dole out, using funds and drugs from foreign donors. The late South African presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana even suggested publicly that...
...also dead, possibly from a head trauma so grievous that police could not be sure whether it was an accident, self-inflicted or a homicide. What is certain is that before and after his last race in March, Antley allowed his life to go into a spiral of methamphetamine and alcohol, turning him into a recluse. The police came to his ranch-style Pasadena home only after his brother flew from South Carolina to check on Antley. And the brother did so only after Antley's pregnant wife, who was living separately from him in New York City, said...
...undying suspicion of millions of Bush supporters--people who absorbed the inaccurate Tuesday-night news reports that Bush had won and now might conclude that Gore stole the election. And if a judge ends up deciding the outcome--something without precedent in American history--it could deliver grievous blows to both men's reputations as well as the winner's claim to the office. The result would be a President who moves into the White House more battered and bruised than the man moving...