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...that island, at 10 a.m. on May 10, 1945, a Japanese Zero flew in low against the U.S. aircraft carrier Bunker Hill and crashed onto the flight deck, igniting the 30 planes waiting to fly sorties. Thirty seconds later, another Japanese suicide flight dropped out of the sky and struck the Bunker Hill amidships, ripping open a 12m. hole with the blast of its 250-kg bomb and turning the fast carrier into an inferno for the next six hours. Of the 3,000 crewmen on board, 353 died in the smoke and flames. The kamikaze attacks were part...
...personal interest. Then about a year ago one of my roommates took a course on corridos, or Mexican folk ballads, offered by a visiting professor in the English department. The fascination with which he read his texts for the course, and the enthusiasm with which he described his work struck me deeply. I learned quite a bit in the process as well--the social value and poetic richness of an art form which I had ignorantly disregarded as annoying background music...
...rather than their sons, has been inappropriately pegged as the victim -- in a persuasive passage near the end of his book. Having decided not to make up his mind about whether to support a death sentence for her until he had talked with her in prison, Towle says, what struck him most was that she didn't seem sorry: "If the roles were reversed," he writes, "I would have been stretched out on the floor, wrapped around her ankles, bawling my head off that I was sorry, wailing for her forgiveness...
...rather than their sons, has been inappropriately pegged as the victim -- in a persuasive passage near the end of his book. Having decided not to make up his mind about whether to support a death sentence for her until he had talked with her in prison, Towle says, what struck him most was thatshe didn't seem sorry:"If the roles were reversed," he writes, "I would have been stretched out on the flooor, wrapped around her ankles, bawling my head off that I was sorry, wailing for her forgiveness...
...Force Base in California and Kelly Air Force Base in Texas. Clinton angrily blasted the commission but didn't send the package of cuts back with suggested changes, as the law allows him to do. Aides said a deal to privatize jobs at McClellan and Kelly had been struck to minimize the economic impact in those areas...