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...Even as his faith inspired him to save Nixon, he refused to use it to save himself. Ford's discretion would be tested as the 1976 campaign took shape. Former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist who taught Sunday school, did mission work, filled in for preachers when they were on vacation and told the crowd at a backyard reception in March 1976 that he had been born again. His sister Ruth Carter Stapleton was herself an evangelist who used to minister to reporters on the back of Carter's campaign plane and wrote letters to the faithful...
...control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah Ramadi," said McClung, making me laugh. "We don't want to destroy the city to save it." McClung went on: Beefed-up local police forces would wrest the city from insurgents block by block instead, with local tribal leaders providing fresh recruits. Some new tribal flatfoots were already on the streets. The tide in Ramadi, McClung said, was turning. "It's getting better," McClung said...
...During the months after the Haditha story broke, I became the target of bloggers, self-proclaimed patriots, for supposedly dragging the fine reputation of the Marines through the mud. Nothing about this story made me feel good save for one thing: until TIME's investigation, one of the Marines - the squad leader, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich - was in line to receive a medal for heroism for what he did that terrible day. According to press reports, the recommendation says that Wuterich, 26, displayed "calm and confident decisiveness that day and doubtlessly prevented further injury or death to fellow Marines...
...there no heroes anymore? This week, a fella named Donald Trump arose to save Miss USA from the gutter. "After days of headlines about her underage drinking, failed cocaine test, nightclub bathroom antics, and incessant hunk-hunting in Big Apple hotspots," as the New York Post put it, surely young Tara Conner, a small-town Kentucky girl grooving overly on the Big Apple, would be stripped (ooh) of what the New York Daily News called "her $17,500 Mikimoto pearl-dotted tiara...
...Marshall, which deals with a much larger tragedy. In 1970, a small college's entire football team (save a couple of players left behind because of injuries) was wiped out in an airplane crash as it returned home from a loss on the road. The devastation that wrought on a small school and a small town, both of which pretty much lived and died with the successes and failures of its sports teams, was huge and seemingly irreparable. Many, possibly most, of the students and fans wanted to shut down the program, the better to concentrate on mourning. But they...