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...World War II. While on a reporting trip earlier this year, Chang suffered a breakdown and had to be hospitalized for depression, according to Susan Rabiner, her former editor and agent. Last week, Chang, 36, was found dead of a gunshot wound while sitting in a car along a rural road outside San Jose, California. In a note to her family, Rabiner said, Chang wrote that she wanted to be remembered "as the woman she had been before her illness, engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing and her family." ?By Austin Ramzy...
...visit the Southern Baptist Convention or any other fundamentalist group to say, Look, we're going to disagree on some issues, but there are lots of things we have in common, and I want to hear your point of view. He did not take a "listening tour" through rural Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; he simply ignored the South. When Whoopi Goldberg lewdly compared the President to a body part in her southern hemisphere, Kerry-who was in the audience-came onstage and said entertainers like Goldberg represented "the heart and soul of America." He did not criticize the mayor...
...never” or only “monthly” attend church—a four point percentage gain over 2000. (He only gained an additional one percent among those who attend church “weekly” or more). Bush actually lost two percentage points among rural voters, instead gaining in the suburbs, and, most significantly, by 13 percentage points in “big cities” and nine points in “smaller cities.” He improved his share of the vote in every geographic area of the country, with his greatest...
...there’s any drawback to Princeton’s program, it may be that [because of the rigor] you miss out on some of the culture,” McKiernan said. “Any interaction you can have with the people, especially the rural people who have not had much interaction with Americans, much less foreigners, is very beneficial...
...years?1.5 million people murdered, starved or worked to death?is familiar yet shocking. Almost as shocking is the sheer incompetence of Pol Pot's rule. He had barely come to power before initiating the policies that helped him lose it: the evacuation of urban centers, which caused mass rural starvation, and the extermination of the skilled and the educated. In 1978, dimly sensing his reign of terror was collapsing, he issued a belated directive for cadres to ease up on summary executions, yet simultaneously launched a bloody purge of suspected Vietnam sympathizers. And so, with astonishing rapidity, a movement...