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...Numbers? Your story on U.S. troops fighting insurgents in the Iraqi village of Qubah [April 9] appeared to be a routine report on the war - that is, until I saw the pictures of soldiers writing identifying numbers on an Iraqi woman's hand and an Iraqi man's neck. Those pictures not only symbolized an evil from times past but also underscored the direction this war has taken since the day when an Iraqi finger dipped in ink symbolized freedom. David Habecker, ESTES PARK, COLORADO...
...beat down a couple of times.” “We used to just have these insane BB gun wars,” he continues. “Thank God, in retrospect, that nobody lost an eye. We had the rule of no shooting above the neck, and people got shot in the ear and the Adam’s apple and the forehead, and it was basically just insane.” Fear not: a Wilson death-by-BB-gun seems unlikely, as the brothers have put down their weaponry in favor of intense croquet games, according...
Your story onU.S. troops fightinginsurgents in the Iraqi village of Qubah [April 9] appeared to be a routine report on the war--that is, until I saw the pictures of soldiers writing identifying numbers on an Iraqi woman's hand and an Iraqi man's neck. Those pictures not only symbolized an evil from times past but also underscored the direction this war has taken since the day when an Iraqi finger dipped in ink symbolized freedom...
...brutal assaultwhen he was 26 broke his neck and put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It also helped spark a shift on the professional football field, where New England Patriots receiver Darryl Stingley took the intentional hit from Oakland Raider Jack Tatum during a 1978 exhibition game. Tatum, who defended his play, saying "My best hits border on felonious assault," was not penalized, never apologized and later wrote books billing himself as an "NFL assassin." Stingley visited paralyzed players, started a nonprofit group for inner-city kids and forgave Tatum. "It was only after...
...easy last week to find good judges who rate Andrew Johns the smartest footballer they ever saw. But Johns, 32, who retired from rugby league on April 10 because of a neck injury that might have crippled him if he'd kept playing, could see himself very differently. "I'm the most immature bloke I know," he said when I knocked on his door one morning in 2000 and found him stretched out watching cartoons...