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...three servicemen were still reverberating then. All the same, I am sick and tired of articles that portray our military men as violent and the Okinawan women as innocent schoolgirls. Ninety-nine percent of the servicemen are good kids trying to serve their country far from home. JENNY WATSON Stafford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...terror of this loss goes way beyond writers, of course. It's just that writers depend on the ability to make connections out of thin air, or no air. The novelist Jean Stafford lived with the dread that she would be crippled by a stroke (she was). H.L. Mencken was a stroke victim who, at the end of his life, was unable to read or write. One of those who sat at his bedside and read to him was Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Of Lost Connections | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...meeting was held, protester Carlo Giuliani was shot in the head by a police officer [WORLD, July 30]. Giuliani should have been arrested, not murdered, by the police. If actions like this are not condemned outright by people and especially the media, they will continue to happen. EDWARD STAFFORD Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 2001 | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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