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...civil-affairs team, the ones who hand out medicine and rebuild schools and are supposed to stay a safe distance from actual combat. But somehow Chris had wound up leading convoys back and forth between Kuwait and Baghdad, and Betsy knew that was a much more dangerous mission than normal. On June 30, he phoned Betsy from Iraq to tell her he was heading back to Kuwait. "I'll be there for a little while, so you'll be able to breathe a little easier and relax--I'm going to be there for my birthday," he said. "I love...
...that this young fellow was rich, though I had, and still have, no clear idea how rich. What hadn't occurred to me is how becoming rich, more or less unexpectedly, at the beginning of your adult life must make the world look different. Different than it looks to normal people who have to worry about money all their lives. Different than it looks to the conventionally rich, who get that way over the course of many years. Different, even, than it looks to those who inherit wealth and therefore grow up knowing it's coming. Of course...
...Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision - a creature - of the purest sweetness...
...open an office to connect crime victims with social services. He helped start Austin's Children's Advocacy Center, which works with abused kids, and a family-justice division of the D.A.'s office, which prosecutes those accused of domestic violence and helps their families get back to normal. A lot of prosecutors view such do-gooderism as a waste of time, preferring to devote themselves to cases guaranteed to go Live at 5. Earle, by contrast, rarely appears in court. He would rather attend, as he did recently, a conference in a motel ballroom off Highway 35 to talk...
...would face trial in the U.K. because the Crown Prosecution Service is independent, and is likely to conclude that any fruits of their interrogations in Cuba are inadmissible. Stephen Jakobi, director of Fair Trials Abroad, which is campaigning for Begg and Abbasi, says he'd be satisfied with normal U.S. trials. Blair would probably consider that a win too, but Bush will be reluctant to set this precedent even for his good buddy Tony. "There's no good solution," says a Whitehall official, "because the U.S. picked up these guys after Sept. 11 with one priority only, which...