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...introduced a bill to reduce payroll taxes). She worked with Bush on the No Child Left Behind Act and voted for his homeland-security bill. The state's senior Senator, John Breaux, explains, "She didn't want to be Cleland-ed," a reference to Georgia Senator Max Cleland, the Vietnam War hero defeated after his opponent pictured him with Osama bin Laden for having voted against the same bill...
...crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember when a kid could hitchhike in America, and older guys would...
DIED. LYNDA VAN DEVANTER, 55, who wrote searingly of her time as a Vietnam nurse; of a vascular disease perhaps related to Agent Orange; in Herndon, Va. Her book, Home Before Morning, told of the horror of combat surgery--of drunk doctors, lost patients and the special loneliness of a female veteran of our most loathed...
...what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord. The burgeoning environmental movement saw in his wasteland of Mordor a strip-mined industrial dystopia. On a deeper level, a country drowning in the moral quicksand of Vietnam and Watergate found comfort in the moral clarity of Tolkien's epic story of a just, clear war. Good and evil are fixed stars in the skies of Middle-earth even as they're starting to look wobbly in ours...
...DIED. JOHN RAWLS, 82, influential American thinker and Harvard University professor best known for his groundbreaking 1971 book A Theory of Justice; in Lexington, Massachusetts. The book provided fresh insights into the concepts of justice and equality at a time when the morality of the Vietnam War was being hotly debated in the U.S. Some critics regard Rawls as the best writer on the subject since German philosopher Immanuel Kant two centuries before...