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Still, the Grimeses say they experience almost paralyzing fear every time a U.S. soldier dies in Iraq, then gut-wrenching guilt over their relief it wasn't Billie. They avoid the news whenever possible. Wanda's worst moment was seeing, on CNN, a still smoking armored ambulance that had been hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad. The vehicle was just like the one Billie drives. "It was all I could do to hold it together and not become hysterical at work," says Wanda, a nurse...
...possible for a musical to be really about something--to grapple with serious issues of race and class, childhood loss and adult guilt--and not feel like homework? That's the question raised by Caroline, or Change, the most ambitious new musical of New York City's rather dull theater season. Written by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and partly based on his own childhood, the show is set in Louisiana in 1963 and focuses on the relationship between a black maid and the liberal Jewish family that employs her. At a time when musicals seem to be groping...
...teacher who also does not wish to be fully identified, agreed to meet TIME in a Baghdad restaurant to explain how they select their victims. They claim that each of their targets was a murderer for the old regime and that they require witnesses and documents as proof of guilt before they deliver the reckoning. "These men are killers," says Aws. "And since there is no government, we will judge them." The U.S. plan to reduce its forces in Iraq and turn over sovereignty to a new Iraqi government next July, they say, has made their brand of vigilantism...
McNamara does admit that he made mistakes, but he never fully takes responsibility for his misdeeds. It is as if he believes that the domino theory applies to him—that a single avowal of guilt will collapse his entire line of defense...
...believe we must have been cursed... When we have made the apology we will be clean again." Filimoni Nawawabalevu, Fiji village chief, before a tribal ceremony to assuage his village's guilt for consuming an English missionary in 1867. According to a contemporary report, the villagers ate all parts of the Englishman "but his boots...