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...exact same one, twice. What does that tell you? It was a form letter." WAYNE DEUTSCH, father of U.S. soldier Michael Deutsch, who was killed by a land mine in Iraq in July, on receiving two condolence letters from the White House...
...Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized millions of listeners on five continents and ran for 58 years?the world's longest-running series with a single person as host. When Cooke died last week at 95, the English-speaking world said a melancholy good-night to a consummate reporter and the world...
...live at home, she can't live with relatives, she can't go to school or talk to her friends." THE MOTHER OF KOBE BRYANT'S ACCUSER, in a letter to Judge W. Terry Ruckriegle, complaining that press attention has disrupted her daughter's life and pleading that he speed up the trial...
...surveyed said further terror attacks on the U.S. would be justified. More moderate Muslims realize they're in a fight for the soul of their religion, and whatever their frustrations with Blair and Bush, last week's arrests caused them to shift up a gear. In Luton, where a letter from the Muslim Council of Britain to imams calling for cooperation with police was being widely discussed, one conservative young Muslim said he and his friends were talking to potential al-Muhajiroun recruits, trying to show them its understanding of Islam was false. And Anwar Khan is working to start...
...most often cited by occupation authorities as the ringleader is al-Zarqawi. They frequently tie the Jordanian militant to al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam. But now al-Zarqawi seems to be running his own network in Iraq. He allegedly set out, in a long letter U.S. officials attributed to him in January, his plan for inciting civil war through attacks on Iraqis. He was quickly blamed last week for the hotel bombing, which mimicked al-Qaeda's style. "I think he might be one of the leaders giving instructions," says Hertling. Catching al-Zarqawi is a "daily mission," says...