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...lawyers in discovery documents. But Carpenter, who since had his security clearance restored and is a contractor with another federal agency, never wavered. In that quintessentially American way, he still wanted his day in court. Along the way, he became a minor cult hero among networks geeks and stubborn patriots...
...Bush's latest plan for Iraq is not a strategy but an experiment destined to cost more American and Iraqi lives. The American people elected a stubborn boy to do a man's job and found him wanting. In fact, the whole world finds him wanting. He squandered all the goodwill that flowed toward the U.S. after 9/11 and made a monumental mess of the Middle East, turned the U.S. into the biggest debtor nation in the world, divided the country, flunked on all the important domestic problems and is losing South America. R. Walter Weller Strathroy, Canada...
...being a ''spy.'' When he had finished speaking, the Red Guard who had led the others into my home described its ''luxury.'' Another Red Guard told how I had tried to ''undermine'' their ''revolutionary activities'' by fighting with them to preserve ''old culture.'' A Revolutionary spoke of my stubborn arrogance and accused me of deliberately keeping a ''wild animal'' in the house to attack the Revolutionaries. Former employees of Shell were called upon to give evidence against me. I could see how frightened they all were, and I wondered what they must have gone through...
...voice announced over the loudspeaker that the No. 1 Detention House had been placed under military control. ''Some of you have not confessed,'' he said. ''The policy of our Great Leader Chairman Mao is 'Lenient treatment for those who confess, severe punishment for those who remain stubborn and reward for those who render meritorious service by denouncing others.' Tonight we will deal with some of the outstanding cases here.'' Then he called out one name after another of prisoners sentenced to death because they had not confessed their crimes. With each name the man / shouted...
...Cage correct in considering a 1957 Ford pickup a work of art? Am I right in holding a 1953 Mad comic (#5, of course) in the same esteem? Or are we both merely venerating, financially and artistically, the tastes of our youths that we are too stubborn or eternally adolescent to outgrow...