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...affronting to basic human values that they no longer deserve a jury trial. Yet the purpose of a trial is to determine the facts, through the presentation to a jury of convincing evidence that has been tested through the adversarial system. Once an individual’s guilt has been established, the sentence may follow—but the punishment for accused terrorists, like that for suspected mass murderers and alleged serial rapists, must come after the finding of guilt. Should even Osama bin Laden be brought before a judge in chains, we would hope that our nation would accord...
...character finding solace in, of all uncool places, his church. Most conspicuous is the World War II mania, from Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's encomium The Greatest Generation right up to this fall's HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which has rolled boomer reconnection with parents, guilt over easy prosperity and a longing for communal purpose (be careful what you wish for) all into one trendlet...
...says. "My husband and I would try to take 15 minutes out of each day to just talk about what we were feeling [and] put everything into perspective. The bottom line was to enjoy our son as much as possible and focus on him and not the guilt or the pain." They adopted their second child, Alex, now 7, from Guatemala in November 1993. And Raab, with the help of Resolve, launched her own support group in 1991 in nearby Hyannis, just for those with secondary infertility...
Some couples feel guilt about not being able to give their child a sibling. Karen Licato had to hold back tears when her son J.R., now 11, got up in front of his first-grade class during a parents' observation day and told his classmates he had a brother. "Everyone else in class had a brother or a sister, and our son felt he had to say the same thing," says Licato, 44, a Plainfield, N.J., homemaker. "This broke my heart, and when we talked about it, J.R. and I sat down and had a really good cry afterward...
Licato and her husband Jeffrey, 41, eventually conceived their second child, Tommy, 3, through in-vitro fertilization (IVF). But that can bring guilt of its own. Women who need to spend hours at the doctor's or have bed rest can't be the moms they want to be. And children may be worried by their mothers' going to the doctor so often. April Simanoff has explained to her daughter why she goes to the doctor so much, and she takes the child along on some appointments. "Sabrina is so used to my going to the doctor that she just...