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...knew this, but our anger and fear kept getting the better of us. Why didn't they get behind us? Why didn't they care that we were dying for them? Yet every time we slapped someone around, or trashed a village, or shouted curses from a jeep, we defined ourselves as the enemy and thereby handed more power and legitimacy to the people we had to beat...
Sentencing used to be a solemn affair. But the new let-the-victims-speak policy has produced some dramatic face-offs. In a New York City courtroom last January, Rose Falcone, the mother of an 18-year-old who was murdered during the carjacking of his Jeep, was permitted to address the killer, Edward Summers. "I just want to ask you," said Falcone, her voice taut with rage, "why didn't you just take the Jeep? Why? Why?" Said prosecutor William Mooney: "She seemed like a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders...
...Monday evening, U.N. officials say, the two Americans had gone to the border area to visit friends in a Danish engineering unit. Border guards apparently mistook their white jeep for a U.N. vehicle and waved them through several checkpoints. After Bangladeshi soldiers at a U.N. position turned them back, the men tried to retreat but were stopped by Iraqi police just 25 yards from the border...
According to Johnson, the suspect was driving the stolen vehicle, a black 1988 American Jeep Cherokee, eastbound on Tremont...
...Sagan's optimistic vision, however, rather than any foreboding of apocalypse, that shines through every chapter of this handsomely illustrated ^ book. Anticipating human exploration of Mars, for example, Sagan foresees a Jeep-like vehicle carrying astronauts on the lookout "for rocks from ages past, signs of ancient cataclysms, clues to climate change, strange chemistries, fossils or -- most exciting and most unlikely -- something alive. Their discoveries are televised back to Earth at the speed of light. Snuggled up in bed with the kids, you explore the ancient riverbeds of Mars...