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...Thank you for the article "America's Other Army," about the private security companies operating in Iraq [Oct. 29]. If the architects of the Iraq invasion had used some common sense - like deploying more troops - we wouldn't need military contractors. And if the Iraqi people had backbone and stood up to terrorists, our troops could come home. It seems that American blood is cheap to them. Gerry Turchi, MOORESVILLE...
Ican still recall the pain in my legs as I was forced to kneel on rice, while a girl much heavier than me stood on my back. At the time I was on crutches—but that mattered little to the women in the room who made me put them aside. As the tears rolled down my face, I was told to shut up and stop being so dramatic...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood side by side with President Bush's Trade Representative Susan Schwab and announced they had come to an agreement on how to handle at least two of four outstanding free trade treaties awaiting approval by Congress. "Today is a recognition of the results of the November election," Pelosi told reporters in Washington. "It takes us to a place where we can have a bipartisan consensus on trade, but only with the recognition of the importance and the centrality of labor principles and environmental principles...
...bigger stage could I ask for? Probably only the Boston Garden. As I grew up, kept playing hockey on my town team, and returned to watch Harvard with my parents and teammates, the university itself never entered my mind as place for serious academic study. To me, Harvard always stood for a hockey team whose players wore Latin writing on the front or their jerseys and had begun playing the game in a youth program like mine.And so this family tradition continued every year at the Beanpot, an annual exhibition tournament with nothing but bragging rights as the best college...
...many more have died in landslides unleashed by the rains in the nearby mountains of Chiapas. While some looters broke into Villahermosa's stores and houses, the robbery was on a relatively small scale as police handed out food, water and medical packages and contingents of rifle-wielding soldiers stood on every corner. Navy and marine boats also took rapid control of the waterways that sprung up on the engulfed streets that were infested by dog carcasses. "You never felt that the government had totally disappeared even though our homes and city had been destroyed. You saw that officials were...