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...3rd-grade, my baseball team took a field trip to the batting cage, where the coach watched and critiqued our swings. When it was my turn, the coach and several of my teammates shouted at me to step back, but I didn’t know if they meant back from the plate or back from the machine and while I was asking the clarifying question the ball slammed into my right index finger, which has since curved to the right slightly more than it should. This memory ran in repeat in my mind as the bullriders told...
...fable from the 3rd century B.C. refracted in modern skepticism, Hero views the birth of the Chinese nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. The plot is a series of tales told by the warrior Nameless (Jet Li) to the Emperor (Chen Daoming). Any or none of the stories may be true; this is Rashomon with a Mandarin accent...
...necessity is increasingly disputed and whose context, like it or not, is seen by some as a clash between faiths. However often Bush defends Islam as a religion of peace, his case for war now rests less on high-fiber geo-political arguments than on the suggestion that the 3rd Infantry Division be used as an instrument of God's will to share the gifts of liberty with all people. Kerry, in contrast, has avoided the moral language of people's God-given desire for democracy. "I have always said from Day One that the goal ... here is a stable...
...wore that uniform, and this was the first time I was ashamed of it," says Will Blackman, a leather-skinned veteran who retired as a staff sergeant in 2002 after serving in Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. Fort Stewart is home to the Army's 15,000-member 3rd Infantry Division. The 3rd ID is called the Rock of the Marne for its heroism in World War I--a legacy that makes its troops all the more indignant about the outrages at Abu Ghraib. Says Blackman: "This is a canker sore...
Fears are spreading that the scandal will make their job in Iraq more difficult. Private First Class Travis Goss, 22, of the 3rd ID's 396th Transportation Company, says even "little things gradually build up to make us lose the Iraqis' support." Goss, who just returned from Iraq in January, tries not to think about Abu Ghraib. He and his wife and two young children share a neat ranch house decorated with patriotic slogans and flags, including a homemade Old Glory made from the kids' hand-and footprints. Abu Ghraib, he suggests, is no little thing. Says his wife Lindsay...