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...Iraqi ambush of U.S. supply column last weekend turned Shoshana Johnson into the first American woman POW since a 1994 military rule change that allowed the deployment of women in situations where they could face enemy fire or capture. But Johnson is not the first American servicewoman held by the Saddam?s armed forces. Major Rhonda Cornum, currently studying at the National War College in Washington, was captured by Iraqi forces during the Gulf War. She shared her experience with TIME correspondent Cathy Booth Thomas...
...eight days, she was in Iraqi custody. Although the fear was frequently palpable, she was never tortured and her chief enemy, she says, was boredom. "Being a POW is the rape of your entire life. But what I learned in those Iraqi bunkers and prison cells is that the experience doesn't have to be devastating, that it depends on you," she writes...
...flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own, and having pow'r T' inforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. . . . And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart...
With the Crimson (1-1) trailing 11-10 in the tiebreak, junior opposite Russ Mosier appeared to even the game with an overhead kill. But with the scoreboard glowing 11-11 and Harvard moments from serving, a pow-wow convened at the tower of the up referee. After a 30-second discussion, the point was taken from the Crimson and awarded to the Pioneers...
...first four sounds heard - a drum slamming, "Bum. Ba-bum. Pow!" with the clock of castanets on the fourth beat - tell the audience that the music aims directly at pastiche, for those are the first four notes of "Be My Baby," the Jeff Barry-Ellie Greenwich song from which producer Phil Spector and arranger Jack Nitzsche created a sonic masterpiece for the Ronettes. (Martin Scorsese recognized the power of this opening: he used it at the start of "Mean Streets.") A few bars later, the first syllables uttered in the show - a cutting "Wuh. Uh. Oh." for the song "Good...