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...speculation about whether the controversial Commissioner may be forced out of his job before his contract expires in 2010. In July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian living in London, was mistaken by police marksmen for a suicide bomber and shot to death at Stockwell Underground station. The tragic bungle came 15 days after terror attacks in the capital killed 52 people and the morning after a second, failed bombing attempt. The shooting has already been the subject of two reports by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which found some fault with the handling of the original operation...
Only in second grade at the time of 9/11 - I'm now in eighth - I had been confused by the tragic events. However, your article about Rick Rescorla and the risks he took for his colleagues sent my mother and me into tears. Rescorla's ability to remain calm and assertive in a dangerous situation is inspiring, and I hope we can learn from his example. Martha Harding, PALO ALTO, CALIF...
...democracy and free and fair elections, should have condemned Mugabe and refused to recognize his government. Instead, with the dissent of a few countries, notably Botswana, the Union merely passed a feeble resolution suggesting a government of national unity, which Mugabe in any case would not accept. It is tragic that the A.U. ignored the opportunity to take drastic action. Instead, it has lost whatever credibility it had. Edward R.C. Preston, AUCKLAND...
...Solzhenitsyn remained hopeful that the coming centuries would bring with them a world where mankind's material and spiritual lives, our bodies and our souls, would be able to flourish together. After personally enduring and bearing witness to some of the greatest tragedies of a tragic century, he still believed that life could and would evolve and improve. "The ascension is similar to climbing onto the next anthropological stage," he said. "No one on earth has any other way left but upward...
...performance in Central Park. "They don't let us take pictures of the dead boys anymore." Says Eustis: "Now we have kind of a double perspective, because we realize in how many ways those dreams did not come to fruition in 1967 and 1968. To me, it's more tragic and beautiful than the original...