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...would have been enough? What went on inside the minds of the police who killed Menezes? The public is entitled to be informed of all the details of this event. Axel Beselin Malveira da Serra, Portugal Beyond Symbols of Support In his column "the danger of yellow Ribbon Patriotism" [Aug. 29], Joe Klein stated that there needs to be a public acknowledgment of the agony the war in Iraq has caused. He noted that our troops just want our support. But we Americans can't provide that by wrapping ourselves in the flag, listening to patriotic songs and labeling others...
...Public Service Company shut down two aging hydropower plants that no longer produced much electricity and opened the gates of a small diversion dam that for nearly a century had shunted water away from Arizona's Fossil Creek, a spring-fed tributary of the Verde River. As a thin ribbon of water trickled through, Dr. Robin Silver of the Center for Biological Diversity cheered. "In four to five years, the whole face of this stream will change," he predicted. Among other things, Silver expects young cottonwoods to take root along the banks and native fish like speckled dace, roundtail chubs...
...Grand Boulevard, not including the grave. The coffin is pine, covered with white doeskin on the outside and crepe within. It measures between 24 in. and 30 in. in length by 12 in. in width. Sometimes, as a courtesy, the funeral director will include a pink or blue ribbon across the inside of the coffin...
...history to dean of the law school. Black, 52 and the mother of three children, succeeds Benno C. Schmidt Jr., who in December was named president of Yale. Her promotion marks a significant academic milestone; she becomes the first woman ever to head one of the nation's blue-ribbon law schools. "She's a woman for all sea-sons," proclaimed Columbia President Michael Severn, calling her appointment "just one facet of an extraordinarily gifted human being." And in a pointed comment he added, "She is too solid a choice to allow her being a woman to count. I wanted...
...used to be able to buy enough on Saturday to carry you through," said Betty Jane, "and he doesn't see why they still can't do it that way." She added, "But the most exciting thing in the paper will be that if you won a blue ribbon at the county fair, your name will...