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...surprised by soldiers from home bursting in through the door and telling them it?s going to be okay. In a house somewhere in the city?s west, three devout aid workers from a faith-based outfit known as the Christian Peacemakers Teams - Canadians Harmeet Sooden, 32, and Jim Loney, 41, and Briton Norman Kember, 74 - were freed by British special forces and Canadian law enforcement. The raid, born of intelligence extracted from a freshly captured prisoner only three hours earlier, oddly found the kidnappers absent; alas it couldn?t save Virginian Tom Fox, 54, whose tortured body had been...
...Dean’s close friend, urged Harvard students to come to Vermont to help him campaign for the House vacancy left by Representative Bernie Sanders, an Independent. Sanders decided to run for the U.S. Senate shortly after the departure of the Senate’s only Independent, Jim Jeffords, in April 2005. Harvard College Democrats President Eric P. Lesser ’07 encouraged students to follow Welch’s call for grass-roots mobilization. “There are a couple of dozen races in the House worth watching, and this...
Representative Jim McGovern, D-Mass., visited Harvard Friday afternoon to draw support for gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick ’78 and to express his opposition to the war in Iraq. McGovern, who first backed Patrick’s bid last June, was one of the first in a series of high-profile figures to endorse Patrick, a former Dunster House resident. Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., and two former Clinton administration labor secretaries, Robert Reich and Alexis Herman, have also backed Patrick’s candidacy. Patrick served as the top civil rights enforcement official in the Clinton Justice...
...reporting on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Many of Kristof’s columns on the crisis, which began appearing in the fall of 2004, exposed the crimes committed in Darfur through personal accounts from Sudanese refugees who had been forced to flee their homes. Jim Lehrer, the host of The News Hour on Public Broadcasting Service and ten-time presidential debate moderator, was also honored yesterday with a career award for excellence in journalism. In his acceptance speech last night, Lehrer said that traditional journalism is in “a moment that in many ways...
...absence of any apparent racial motive for the crimes is a small comfort in Birmingham. But the demise of the churches, some more than 100 years old, is still painful. "I began to sense loss for our older people," says Jim Parker, pastor at Ashby Baptist in Bibb County. "They were baptized and married here, and their people are buried here," he says. "But when the children started really crying, I realized it was all they had ever known too." Some things have changed in Alabama, but grief remains the same...