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...walkabout in his own sentences. As voters get to know him better, they may see in his life, his choices and his principles a more complicated picture than Bush presents and one that the Republicans are sure to caricature. Kerry is a hunter who favors gun control, a Vietnam War hero who came home to protest the war, a former prosecutor who opposes the death penalty except in terrorism cases. His record is, as they say, a target-rich environment...
...loud a security system you installed, you’d never park it anywhere. Same thing with bikes: If you lived in constant fear of theft, you’d never ride it anywhere, and certainly not in Cambridge. And let’s not forget politics. After Watergate, Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Clinton-Lewinsky and dozens of other episodes of the now-syndicated television show called “The Political Letdown,” why would anyone ever put faith in a politician? Because we have no other choice, we have to believe that the system works, if only...
...DIED. JOHN SACK, 74, author, war correspondent and pioneer of the New Journalism; in San Francisco. Sack reported from the battlefields of every major U.S. conflict from Korea to Afghanistan. His 33,000-word piece "Oh My God?We Hit a Little Girl," which followed an infantry company in Vietnam, is the longest article ever to appear in Esquire. After interviewing Lieut. William Calley, an officer convicted for the massacre of civilians at My Lai, Sack was indicted on federal felony charges, later dropped, for refusing to surrender his notes to prosecutors...
...Faculty’s 1969 decision to remove ROTC from campus came in protest of the Vietnam War, but Harvard soon after allowed students to travel to MIT to participate in the program. In April 1990, the Faculty passed a resolution pledging to end cooperation with ROTC because the military does not allow gays and lesbians to serve openly. Three years later, the Faculty voted to stop paying for MIT to train Harvard’s ROTC students. The Faculty also recommended that the University bar ROTC from holding its commissioning ceremony for Harvard cadets in the Yard...
...Better Idea?" about what to do in Iraq [March 15], you posed the million-dollar question and brought attention to something that could ultimately be the Senator's downfall. John Kerry offers criticism instead of answers to real problems. That has been his politically successful modus operandi since Vietnam. The battle for the White House will be long and hard fought. Kerry will need to come up with some specific answers, or Americans will soon see he is a political fraud. HAY HASSANI Beaver, Okla...