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...also makes it easy to develop emotional attachments with the students—who are alternately discouraged, distraught, and joyous, but always passionate—and with Pascal, who leads a hunger strike on Guantánamo and represents the other refugees in demanding respect and freedom...
...scene may strike some observers as odd, since the flag is often seen as a symbol of racism, and the LSU football squad is largely black...
...Texans, he engineered a dramatic second half comeback, which included scoring 10 points in final 30 seconds of regulation. Fitzpatrick threw a 43 yard touchdown bomb to Isaac Bruce with 26 seconds left in the game, and then after the Rams recovered an onside kick delivered a 19 yard strike to Torry Holt to set up the game tying field goal. He then capped the performance with a 56 yard game winning touchdown pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime. Fitzpatrick ended the day with a gaudy 310 passing yards, three touchdowns, and a passer rating of 117.4. To put Fitzpatrick?...
...wisdom.” No one has contributed more to the spread of racism in France than Jean-Marie Le Pen during his long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man” would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...
...necessarily. Although Al-Qaeda has not mounted another strike against the U.S. on the scale of the 9/11 attack, it has successfully used the Iraq war in its terrorist-recruiting drive. Led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian operative who directs many of the foreign jihadists, the Iraqi insurgency has attracted Islamic terrorists from around the world. But even without the provocation of Iraq, there's no reason to assume the terrorist threat to the U.S. would disappear. "Whether we pull out of Iraq or not," says a U.S. counterterrorism official, "al-Qaeda will still want...