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AWARDED. HA JIN, 49, Chinese-American novelist; the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, given to the best novel or short story by an American author, for War Trash, the tale of a Chinese soldier captured by Americans during the Korean War; in Washington, D.C. Ha Jin previously won the award for his 2000 novel Waiting, and becomes only the third writer after Philip Roth and John Edgar Wideman to win the prize twice in its 25-year history...
...online existence. In January 2004, he purportedly posted this message on a website: "I've been feeling a strong connection towards Nazi Germany, and it's not necessarily the most pleasing thought, though I can't help it. I feel like in a past life I was a German soldier." Two months later, he seemed to have become much more comfortable with that identity, allegedly signing on to nazi.org first as Todesengel (German for angel of death) and then as NativeNazi. "I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger...
Connors, a photographer since his days serving as a British soldier in Northern Ireland in the early 80s, opened the presentation yesterday by challenging the term “insurgency,” which members of the media frequently apply to those in Iraq fighting against...
...Number of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan whose deaths in American custody are known or suspected by investigators to have been the result of criminal homicide 3 Years of imprisonment, the strictest punishment yet meted out to any U.S. soldier for prison abuse
...Years of imprisonment, the strictest punishment yet meted out to any U.S. soldier for prison abuse