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...dohans. She had worked for two years on BA's long-haul routes to Africa and the Americas, but she had seldom been away from her family home - where she still lived with her mother and younger sister and brother - in the London suburb of Sevenoaks, Kent, for more than four days in a row. After arriving in Tokyo, she phoned and e-mailed family almost daily, telling them she was homesick...
...Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a Sacramento- based non-profit organization supporting "the rights of victims of crime and the law-abiding public." While Scheidegger says the organization supports the death penalty on a case by case basis, CJLF "unquestionably" supports Timothy McVeigh?s death sentence...
...those who had fought and lost more than he had. Kerrey's sister Jessie Rasmussen says he was still struggling with a decision as the family gathered in Washington for the ceremony. But on May 14, 1970, just 10 days after National Guardsmen shot and killed antiwar protesters at Kent State University, Kerrey allowed Nixon to pin the country's highest military honor on his chest...
...those who had fought and lost more than he had. Kerrey's sister Jessie Rasmussen says he was still struggling with a decision as the family gathered in Washington for the ceremony. But on May 14, 1970, just 10 days after National Guardsmen shot and killed antiwar protesters at Kent State University, Kerrey allowed Nixon to pin the country's highest military honor on his chest...
...world's sad mortality. But collateral damage is a wily concept, and you have to make distinctions. There are varieties. Sometimes, as at My Lai, it occurs as atrocious revenge. (One detail made My Lai indelible in my mind: the murderers took a lunch break.) Sometimes, as at Kent State, or Amritsar in 1919, the damage may be the consequence of bad crowd control. Stupidity and atrocity are closely related...