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Specialist Charles Graner, 35, a former Marine, is also a prison guard, having worked since 1996 at a maximum-security prison in southwestern Pennsylvania. Those who subscribe to the bad-apple theory of what went wrong can find a few nasty morsels to chew on in Graner's biography. He has a history of violence against his ex-wife Staci, who has obtained at least three restraining orders against him since they separated in 1997. According to the New York Times, Staci charged in a 1998 court document that "Charles picked me up and threw me against the wall...
Visitors usually liken the Postojna caves in southwestern Slovenia to the interior of a cathedral?cavernous, soaring, sublime. The caves, first opened to the public in 1819, are a 23-km warren of underground galleries, chambers and tunnels, all adorned with stalactites and stalagmites formed over the past 2 million years. In the 1820s, one of the largest chambers was the venue for grand balls, complete with candlelight and festive decorations. In those days visitors rode into the caves in horse-drawn carriages. With the installation of electric lighting a century ago, the largest and arguably most beautiful chamber became...
...between Kerry and the church he calls a "bedrock of values, of sureness about who I am" affect the election? Catholics are among the narrow slice of the electorate considered truly up for grabs this year, and they constitute a major share of the voters in the Midwestern and Southwestern swing states. Those who are most strongly antiabortion are probably already in Bush's camp. But many Catholics are, like Kerry, struggling with contradictions between the church's teachings and what they practice. Still others say abortion is not the only issue that matters when they vote. "There are literally...
...Catching Up with ETA FRANCE French police, in conjunction with the Spanish Civil Guard, arrested three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA. Officers detained Félix Ignacio Esparza Luri - who acting Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said was ETA's logistics chief - in the southwestern city of Dax . Former ETA leader Félix Alberto López de la Calle, who had been on the run since escaping house arrest in November 2000, was apprehended in the western town of Angoulême, along with suspected ETA operative Mercedes Chivite Berango. Ouster in the Offing LITHUANIA...
Koniaków, in Poland's remote southwestern Beskidy Mountains, has long been celebrated for its superb needlework. Since the 16th century Jagiellon dynasty, the women of this tiny village have been making exquisitely crocheted household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniak...