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...1970s with transfixing tales of sexual violence and madness, stories of women skating the edges of insanity and the men who shoved them toward thin ice. On Feb. 20, a similar tale seemed to unfold in Jones' home in Lexington, Ky. When police tried to serve a warrant from a 15-year-old weapons conviction on her husband Bob Jones, he barricaded the couple inside their house and threatened that they would kill themselves. Three hours later, after the odor of natural gas filled the street, police, fearing an explosion, rushed the front door. They reached the 48-year...
...players hope that a strong showing--along with helping their rank--might help earn them the respect and support their performance seems to warrant...
...possibility of bombing also raises moral issues that warrant serious consideration. Iraq is a country in crisis, and its people are in desperate condition despite the protection their rulers might enjoy. Health care facilities have suffered due to sanctions, and the risk of a child under five dying has risen nearly 500 percent in recent times. About 160 children die each day due to food shortages. Bombing such a beleaguered people seems simply inhumane, especially if alternative means are available to accomplish what the U.S. seeks. Unnecessary force is cruel and unconscionable when other policy options are available...
...handbook, and even universal targeting via publicity may not produce desired results. For instance, it would be rather quixotic for the Harvard Vietnamese Association to meet every single first-year during orientation week, since the percentage of students interested in joining is probably less than such an effort would warrant...
...this world than Princess Diana and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. A lady of leisure who spent her short life with royal jokers and playboys is hailed as one who shaped 1997? And a human being who tirelessly spent her entire life tending to the destitute doesn't warrant any mention? That omission makes me wonder where we are headed. SAM SWAMINATHAN Dubai, United Arab Emirates...