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...album closer, “When God Made Me,” a simple and earnest plea for tolerance in the aftermath of 9-11, is likely to split opinions. The song’s first verse is artlessly direct, and betrays Young’s leftist sympathies: “Was he thinking about my country / Or the color of my skin? / Was he thinking about my religion / And the way I worshipped him? / Did he create just me in His image / Or every living thing? / When God made...
...Interestingly, Saddam, whose official biography says he has a law degree from Cairo University, probably made a mistake by entering an "innocent" plea on Wednesday. By doing so, says Badie Izzat, defense counsel for former Iraqi deputy prime minster Tariq Aziz, Saddam tacitly accepted the court's legitimacy. If his strategy is to deny that legitimacy, better for Saddam to have said nothing...
...away the pain. The anguish a mother feels when she loses a child is different from the loss that surviving brothers and sisters feel. Sheehan has done her best for Casey, her soldier son; she did not fail him in any way. But I implore her to heed the plea of her other son Andy: to go back home because she is needed there to support her children. If anything happened to them, she would never forgive herself. Timi Songi Yenagoa, Nigeria...
Noero asked around, looking for others who were planning to stay put, but the more she talked, the more it became apparent that she should heed Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s plea to evacuate. That evening, she circled the streets in the New Orleans neighborhood of Uptown looking for gas, but the lines were so long that she simply jumped on the interstate to the neighboring parish to get fuel. She cruised the banks, trying one empty ATM after another before finally finding cash...
...neighbors, who first presented their petition to the City on Aug. 1 and made another plea on Sept. 12, said that the decision “made complete sense,” because Cowperthwaite Street provides the most direct access to the site...