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...hand, I count the reasons/ I could stay with you/ . . . But on the other hand/ There's a golden band/ To remind me of someone/ Who would not understand." Today the title song of Mike Reid's album Turning + for Home is a tribute to his baby daughter; George Strait is praising the immutability of paternal love in Love Without End, Amen; Alan Jackson is chanting to his wife that I'd Love You All Over Again...
...from a Greek word meaning "to initiate to mysteries" -- a town in Italy's lower boot that had been partly destroyed by the Romans in 214 B.C. because its inhabitants were too friendly to Hannibal's Carthaginians. His family, however, was rooted in Maida, 65 miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than its share of history, good and bad. Maida was plundered frequently in pre-Christian times. The rebel slave Spartacus led his ragtag army through the area during...
...question is, what will happen toJeff Dahmer? We know, at least, that he won't beshot, for he'll spend the entire trial behind aneight-foot high bulletproof wall separating himfrom ogling spectators. In twenty years, let'sassume that he'll be in an insane asylum,prevented by a strait-jacket from munching his ownbody parts. In any case, we will have more or lessforgotten about J.D. and his merry apartment.The SunJeff Dahmer...
...most important of the first Japanese assaults was the invasion of Malaya. The target there was not only the peninsula's wealth of tin and rubber but also the strategic citadel of Singapore. Built in the 1920s and '30s among the mangrove swamps of Johore Strait, at the then enormous cost of $270 million, Singapore stood as the theoretically impregnable naval headquarters of the whole British empire east of Suez. One symbol of the island's true strength, however, was its array of 15-in. guns that could not turn and fire into the supposedly impenetrable jungle behind them. Another...
Shortly before midnight of Feb. 8, under a heavy bombardment, 13,000 Japanese surged across the strait on a fleet of 300 collapsible plywood boats and landing craft. A battalion of 2,500 Australians fought them off all night, but by dawn the Japanese held their beachhead, and then the tanks started across. Though the Japanese were actually outnumbered about 2 to 1 overall, the martial spirit invoked in London hardly existed in Singapore -- at least not on the British side. At a point when the Japanese had conquered half the island, British staff officers could still be seen sipping...