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...YouTube. But actor John Ainsworth and filmmaker John Ireland found a loophole. The duo, legally married to their respective husbands, found a mock courtroom at the University of Southern California, hired a group of actors and began re-enacting the proceedings on the basis of courtroom transcripts and firsthand accounts from journalists present at the trial. The episodes began airing online...
...still feel the stiffness of their fingers as I grasped their hands. I can still see the eyes of longing as they watched a movie being made about the game they still loved. I knew firsthand the willingness of Texas high school football players to sacrifice themselves to team and town and winning the state championship. But I was still unprepared for what these young men shared - the price of paralysis that had come from their experience. I fumbled for words. I played into the very thing that not a single one of them wanted: my pity...
Hooray to TIME for outing the shameful continued segregation of schools as the most underreported story of 2009. As a retired schoolteacher in South Carolina, I have witnessed firsthand how lack of resources and funding can lead to this type of segregation. Although we have certainly come a long way since the 1960s, it is critical that we remember we still have a long path ahead...
...Because of the AAA, "there are a lot of highly motivated, ethical, critical anthropologists who are being discouraged from helping the program." HTS project manager Fondacaro admits that finding recruits with regional expertise is "very rare," but he argues that HTS is creating a population of social scientists with firsthand experience in Iraq and Afghanistan where none existed before...
...these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I have visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed. I have traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans returning home to their final resting place. I see firsthand the terrible wages of war. If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan, I would gladly order every single one of our troops home tomorrow...