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President Bush had a message for McVeigh, and for anyone else who would try to make him a martyr to those questions and doubts. He said McVeigh is "lucky to be in America. That this is a country who will bend over backwards to make sure that his constitutional rights are guaranteed." But that was small consolation to the victims' families, the parents and children and spouses whom McVeigh derides as the "woe is me" crowd, to whom he has never shown the least regret, other than that there were not more of them killed, that he did not bring...
...Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. "Southern white ministers were the center of a kind of civil religion that sacralized the Confederacy after the war was over to help keep it alive, so they made Robert E. Lee into a saint and Stonewall Jackson into a martyr." Outposts of rebel theology can still be found. At the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Wiggins, Miss., parishioners enter the chapel by passing through a room lined with framed photographs of Generals Lee, Forrest and Jackson. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pastor John Thomas Cripps, a member...
...China, are now taking a much more hard-line approach to satisfy domestic constituencies, and to protect their own space. China's version has been, I think, more ham-fisted, because it has greater control over its media. But there are similarities between the Chinese portrayals of the martyr Wang Wei and U.S. portrayals of its air crew, which is also presented as heroic...
...friends learned at school. She wears jeans, and her long ponytail is done up with a brown butterfly clip. "The sound of the stone/ The blood of usurpers/ The hearts are bleeding in fury/ They carry stones in their small hands/ And challenge the aggressors," she sings. "The martyr Mohammed/ Seen by millions/ Taking refuge in the bosom of his father/ Dying by damned bullets/ His blood is splashing in the sky." The song, by Egyptian pop artist Walid Tawfiq, is about Mohammed al-Durra, the 12-year-old whom the world witnessed dying in his father's arms...
...MEDIUM IS THE MARTYR In an attempt to combat what it calls a disturbing "lack of confidence" in the Internet, a group of online businesses, including the Web portals Excite and iWon, has proclaimed April 3 "Back the Net Day." On that date, chosen to commemorate a vicious drop in the NASDAQ last year, Web surfers are encouraged to show their appreciation for the Internet by buying online, donating online and generally doing as much of their daily business as possible on the Internet. Says organizer Michael Tchong: "We must band together and send the world a loud, clear message...