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Campus protesters shrug off the boycott threats as unfocused. "It's not as if people aren't shopping on Telegraph Avenue," the city's main artery, says Snehal Shingavi, one of the leaders of Berkeley's Stop the War coalition. "I think it was quite heroic what the council did." Berkeley's version of heroism dates back to the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students first used civil disobedience to overturn a ban on campus activism. Four decades later, that activism may be less dramatic, but it is at least more colorful. Marches these days include the visually arresting...
Lawyers, in closing arguments, are urging jurors not to take their frustration out on the defendants. And they are trying to remind them that cops aren't perfect. "The answer to that is you can be heroic in one minute, perjurious in the next, depending on what your goals are," says David Lewis, the lawyer for a 1993 World Trade Center bombing defendant. Still, defense lawyers say Sept. 11's impact may not be all bad. Robin Steinberg, director of Bronx Defenders, a New York public-defender office, says world terrorism may make jurors question if it makes sense...
...Louisiana reader, "scare all the mothers of the servicemen and -women sent to fight this war? It would have been better to show the righteous fury of a Navy SEAL or an Army paratrooper." Objecting to the "Muslims screaming hate against America," a Texan asked, "Why not show the heroic workers cleaning up the rubble in New York?" "We have enough reminders of the terror without that revolting picture," declared an Arizonan. But plenty of you were struck by something else. "That Pakistani protester must have a great dental plan," wrote a Californian. "He has a perfect set of teeth...
...Heroic parishioners such as Shamoon Masih, who carried children out of the church before fainting from blood loss, were aghast at the pure viciousness of the act. “They had no mercy for the children,” he lamented. “They had no mercy for the women. They could see that small children were being hit by bullets, but they kept firing.” Pope John Paul II characterized the brutality as a “tragic act of intolerance” that was utterly “evil” in its nature...
...Heroic parishioners such as Shamoon Masih, who carried children out of the church before fainting from blood loss, were aghast at the pure viciousness of the act. “They had no mercy for the children,” he lamented. “They had no mercy for the women. They could see that small children were being hit by bullets, but they kept firing.” Pope John Paul II characterized the brutality as a “tragic act of intolerance” that was utterly “evil” in its nature...