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...Vice President Dick Cheney decided that Katherine Armstrong, owner of the land on which he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, was the best person to tell the press about the event [Feb. 27]. Cheney handpicked someone who had potentially serious liability issues to give the story to the media even before the President was informed. The disclosure that Cheney and his friends were hunting from their cars without proper licenses adds a smarmy exclamation point to another display of his arrogance and disregard for the law. Ed Vecchio Huber Heights, Ohio, U.S. The most disturbing excuse for the delay in reporting...
...Shahar said that when the colonial European Jews [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED] purchased these “uninhabited and uninhabitable territories” from Arab landowners then living in Turkey, the land came with an official decree preventing the displacement of Palestinian Arabs...
...Redick has established himself as something of a poet. You are a self-proclaimed freestyle rapper. What would you say if you met J.J. in a battle? CT: I would say, “You think you’re the illest baller in the land? / Let’s see what happens when I slice off your shooting hand!” Then I would remove a samurai blade and cut off his right hand. BL: Rumor has it that you’ve taken the NCAA’s RPI rankings and applied them to the world...
When one thinks of short stories about Americans adrift in a foreign land, expatriate authors like Ernest Hemmingway and Paul Bowles come to mind...
...nationwide holiday, a huge tourist draw, and a giant display of national pride. To us, the descendants of Irish immigrants, the holiday is a vital affirmation of our culture and our place in America.Hungry and trapped in distressing poverty, our ancestors fled their homes for a strange new land. Persecuted for their religion, considered by nativists to be something less than human, the first Irish to arrive in large numbers on American shores showed their defiance on the 17th of March. They filled the streets with green to show their numbers and their unity, and they marched to remember...