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This is why it is so important that we stand with our allies worldwide to combat terrorism. That this battle doesn’t pit the largest and most powerful nation in the world against one of the poorest and most miserable. That we do not allow ourselves to stoop to the level of revenge, revenge which could never be commensurate to our loss because our loss is incalculable. This is not war in the traditional sense...
...died in Genoa; a man, we must presume, who was swayed by the false promise that violence--not peaceful protest, not participation in the democratic process--is the best way to advance a political cause. It is not too much to hope that the next time his friends stoop to pick up a cobblestone, they will remember a lesson learned when plows first broke the Mesopotamian earth: You reap what...
...very American way, it's an art. To satisfy the tabloids, Roberts won't stoop to getting arrested in connection with hard drugs or a hot car. No, she indulges in serial trysts, but blithely, like a madcap heiress that Carole Lombard might have played 60 years ago. And America loves her for it. That's classic, full-service star quality, folks. The Best...
...girl in six-inch platform boots is hanging with her friends on a Catholic school stoop in Chelsea, New York City, watching a gaggle of boys playing hacky- sack on the street. As the sun sets, the group is joined by a boy wearing a striped, bright knit hat; a young man in a button-down shirt; a graphic designer - dozens of young New Yorkers of all shapes and sizes. As 9 p.m. approaches, they file into the gymnasium and flop into hard, brown plastic chairs arranged in the center. "Hi, I'm Andrew and I'm an alcoholic," says...
York is still deeply divided; minorities make up 40% of its 41,000 people. Newberry Street is still a front line. Last week, at the spot where Allen died, Ronnie Young sat on the stoop of his row house wearing a red Newberry Street Boys hat. A Confederate flag hangs in his yard. "They say they were race riots, but all they are doing is indicting whites," he says. "They better find out who shot the white cop, or there will be another race war." That policeman was shot three days before Allen and died two weeks after. Black leaders...