Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your article "A Life For A Life" about the racial-murder trial in Jasper, Texas, put me on the verge of tears [NATION, March 8]. My heart went out to the families of both dragging victim James Byrd Jr. and his killer John William King. But bravo to the Jasper community for being strong in the face of evil and bigotry. Justice was served with King's being convicted of murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection. This should be a lesson to all hate groups, white and black. Americans want a change. If you want to hate, hate...
...JOHNSON Blue Jays manager ousted for telling tales of his Marine days in Vietnam. He never went...
...King is a good and righteous man. Anything in this column that implies otherwise is the result of poor grammar or was slipped in by my editors after I went home. The important thing to remember is how good and righteous I think Mr. King is. Also, in case it comes up, I like the Scientologists...
...didn't actually watch the fight because I no longer patronize boxing. The last fight I watched was in 1996, when I went to Madison Square Garden to see Riddick Bowe, a black American, fight Andrew Golota, who is a plumber in Poland. Early on, in a moment I can't really explain, I told my friend that it would be "fun to sit with the Polish people." For the next half hour we sang Polish songs and chanted Polish chants. Nationalism is a blast, even if it's not your own country...
After the war, he returned to the I.A.S. and became obsessed with computing. Von Neumann's vision for the machines went beyond the rote arithmetic tasks for which they were originally designed. In his idealized computer, the same memory units that held data items, such as numbers or text, also held the step-by-step instructions that would allow the machine to be programmed to perform any task. Von Neumann persuaded the I.A.S.'s somewhat skeptical board of trustees to allocate $100,000--quite a sum in 1945--to build the MANIAC, the first in a series of early...