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Harvard's memorial service be will held today in Memorial Church at 10 p.m. The service will begin on the church's porch and then move inside. Reverend Peter J. Gomes will speak...
Eight years ago, Derek Tice walked out onto his porch and found an entire SWAT team with all their guns pointed at him. He was convicted of murder, twice, in two separate trials, and sentenced to life in prison. To many observers in Norfolk, Virginia, at the time, it had seemed like an open-and-shut case - a tape of Tice's own confession to the 1997 rape and murder of Navy newlywed Michelle Moore Bosko, 18, was played for the juries. But Tice and two other former Navy sailors convicted in the murder later insisted that they had fabricated...
...rounded, almost pillowy characters to explore the mysteries of people and relationships. A typical story, Meow Face, portrays a girl's deteriorating relationship with an increasingly eccentric aunt whose inexplicable antics include meowing in public. Using quiet panels, as when a busy mother takes a moment on a sunny porch, Kelso's stories invite contemplation...
Phantom pain was a daily topic at OT--occupational therapy, the whittling porch for amputees. I made my first friends there. Most of my neighbors were half my age and from different backgrounds, small-town boys who had passed up college or blue-collar trades for a military life. I was urban, overeducated, untattooed and distrustful of uniforms and blind patriotism. But I soon discovered that I shared something with those soldiers larger than the differences in our biographies. We were men struggling for identity. The psychological scars of amputation ran deeper than those from conventional wounds...
...where houses once stood nearby. He hasn't seen the neighbors at all, but believes his renovation, lonely as it is, will hasten the process of rebuilding. "I'm doing everything I possibly can to make it viable for someone to come in and sit out here on the porch, so people pass and say 'Oh, that house looks so nice,'" he says. "I'm hoping my neighbors will say, 'Look, Mr. Thomas has his home back together...