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Pang says the close call frightened him so much that he didn’t leave the country for more than a year afterward. He was so frustrated during the months when his visa application was pending that he nearly threw in the Harvard towel entirely, he says...
...Graner's biography. He has a history of violence against his ex-wife Staci, who has obtained at least three restraining orders against him since they separated in 1997. According to the New York Times, Staci charged in a 1998 court document that "Charles picked me up and threw me against the wall" and also sneaked into her home at night. "I just don't think this is normal behavior." Prisoner abuse was a problem at the penitentiary where Graner worked, but he was not implicated in a 1998 scandal that led to the firing or transfer of 24 guards...
...challenger find himself talking about for three days? The question of what, precisely, he tossed over a fence in front of the Capitol during an antiwar protest 33 years ago. The point of contention was whether the much decorated Vietnam veteran who still carries shrapnel in his thigh threw away medals, as he told a local Washington television station in 1971, or ribbons, which is how he subsequently described them to nearly everyone else. Political hands of both parties expressed wonderment over how it was that any politician could find himself on the defensive about his own medals for valor...
...away in Blacksburg, Va., and attended an all-black school there. "I used to cry in silence at night for my family," Moseley remembers. She returned to Prince Edward two years later to attend the privately funded "free schools" created as a temporary remedy by local black leaders. "They threw us all in together, taught a little of this, a little of that. It was a big confusion," Moseley recalls. When the public schools finally reopened under court order in 1964, Moseley went back, graduating two years later than she would have. She says she felt uncomfortable about walking...
...runs off a ballclub, and you get good pitching, you win,” Walsh added. “That didn’t happen today, plain and simple. We threw too many balls over the plate. The fastball just wasn’t fast enough, our curveball wasn’t curving enough...