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...could have carried him straight to the pros after high school, except that the mind wanted a college education. So Lentz wound up at Harvard instead...
Khalid, a 43-year-old Iraqi, won't give his last name for fear of reprisal if Saddam's regime survives. He has a bullet wound in his right calf. He says that five days before troops entered Iraq, fedayeen forces came to the home of his extended family in Diwaniyah, kicked in the door and took all the men between the ages of 20 and 60. Khalid was later taken to Nasiriyah, where he and a ragtag group of some 40 civilians were handed old Kalashnikovs without ammunition and pushed in front of Iraqi soldiers as they faced down...
...hours after I arrived, a helicopter dropped off a soldier with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was an Iraqi prisoner. The young man was immediately taken to the operating room, with CNN providing live coverage. "Medical triage, not political triage," said Dr. John Perciballi, the lead surgeon. During my six-day stay, they treated 64 patients, 70% of whom were Iraqis, with injuries varying from gunshot wounds to broken limbs to amputation completions. This is difficult work even absent a war. Yet the surgeons sometimes operated wearing gas masks while alarms sounded in the distance...
...possibly roughed up by captors, were asked pointed questions--Where are you from? Why are you here?--before a TV audience. If it turns out that other Americans in their unit were executed (the broadcasts also showed a group of dead Americans, one of whom had a visible gunshot wound to the head), a much more serious crime--a "grave breach" of Geneva, in its stiff parlance--will have been committed...
...flirtation between happiness and sadness is all over World Without Tears. Sweet Side is about a woman who loves her man, a victim of child abuse, because "I know you don't mean to do the cruel things you do." Minneapolis contrasts the open wound of a relationship with the glistening whiteness of the Minnesota winter, while the perky People Talkin' decodes a fair number of Williams' riddles: "Livin' is full of misery and pain/Somebody calls you a dirty name, keep on walkin...