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...least six close relatives had served. During his senior year of high school, he enlisted in the Army's delayed-entry program, and though he had never took part in track before, he joined the team, a move his coach now suspects was partly to help him prepare for basic training. After graduating from high school in 2000, Keith went straight into the Army and was assigned to Fort Bragg. When he wasn't training, he could often be found at the local toy store playing with kids in the aisles. In Iraq, similarly, he told his family he enjoyed...
...residents of AIDS-stricken Wenlou village in central Henan province, China's authorities seem considerably less paternal. As many as 60% of the locals are HIV positive, infected when they sold blood under unsanitary conditions in the 1990s. Most are too poor to afford even basic medicine needed for the host of small infections the virus brings, let alone the costly antiretroviral drugs just now becoming available in Chinese cities. Victims are treated in makeshift infirmaries lacking basic medical gear...
...Roberto Drudi insists "we have no problem with Germans." He hopes the spat will soon fade, but others fear it won't. "Stefani paraded out the Northern League's old boorish way of talking," says Camillo Brezzi, professor of contemporary history at Siena University. "But it derives from a basic anti-European attitude of this government. They do not see real possibilities for collaborating with their most important partners." French President Jacques Chirac got whomped in February when he said Central European politicians who spoke out in support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq had "missed a good opportunity...
...decision was not, strictly speaking, a "liberal" one, another sign of a left-tilting court, which earlier in the week upheld the basic principle of affirmative action. Many conservatives of a libertarian streak abhor the idea of a government so vast and intrusive that it tells people what they can do in private...
Lawrence v. Texas turns an issue that states have historically decided for themselves into a basic constitutional tenet. Even supporters expressed surprise at Justice Anthony Kennedy's language, given this court's allergy to broad social pronouncements. "The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives," Kennedy argued. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime." The court's majority based its landmark decision on a belief in "a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter." To opponents, it meant that any law based mainly...