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...TURKEY A recently introduced high-speed train running from Istanbul to Ankara derailed near the northwestern town of Pamukova, killing 37 people. Two drivers and a crew chief of the train were charged with negligence, but the media and unions criticized the government for allowing its showcase high-speed rail service to start operating in June, despite warnings from experts that the existing track was not good enough...
...down over North Vietnam in 1967, Mechenbier spent six years in captivity in the so-called Hanoi Hilton, alongside John McCain, now a U.S. Senator. He hung up his wings upon reaching the Air Force's mandatory retirement age: "When you're getting run out of town on a rail, get in front and make it look like a parade," he said at a ceremony in his honor...
...people dead, many more injured and numerous commuter trains mutilated in the biggest terrorist attack Spain had ever experienced. The same trains that I had taken every day to school for four months during the fall semester now lay in a tangled mess strewn across the platforms of suburban rail stations and along the narrow tracks on their approach to the Atocha train station. Dear friends, many of whom shared the daily commute with me, remained an ocean away, out of direct contact. Luckily no one I knew was hurt...
...sacrament that more than any other symbolizes a Catholic's ongoing connection to the faith. At least one of those leaders--Colorado Springs, Colo., Bishop Michael Sheridan--has even suggested that unrepentant Catholics who so much as vote for a pro-choice politician should stay away from the Communion rail. Kerry meanwhile insists that he will continue to practice both his faith and his politics as always, and so the watch is on. Can the Democratic nominee travel the country throughout the next five months of Sundays without a priest turning him away? As Kerry campaigns this week in Colorado...
...Andrew Sullivan's essay "Showdown At The Communion Rail" [May 24]: As a Roman Catholic, I was appalled to learn that some bishops would actually withhold Communion from believers because of their views on abortion. One would hope that the upper echelons of the church hierarchy would have learned tolerance by now and ceased engaging in petty political machinations. Has the church come to terms with the numerous allegations of sexual abuse of young boys by priests? Is it possible that all priests who are giving or taking Communion are without sin? I think not. Withholding a sacrament from...