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...early IBM PC and it came with BASIC,” Nesson recounts. “I programmed the machine to play five-card draw jacks-or-better poker and I loved it, figuring out how to make it deal and shuffle the cards. I was able to sell that and buy a summer house...
...when national institutions fail to bring to justice those responsible for war crimes or crimes against humanity within their borders. Perhaps Bush is more worried about America’s prerogative to try and convict terrorists on its own terms rather than in an international setting guided by a basic commitment to fairness and human rights...
...hours out of Pakbeng, where we overnighted in a basic but adequate guesthouse, one passenger inquired as to whether he might partake of some marijuana on the roof. "No," replied Mr. Hong. Despite the refusal, a sweet scent soon filled the boat. "I'm not stopping if he falls off," shrugged the captain. A Japanese photographer fell off the roof of his boat three months ago and was sucked down into a whirlpool. "There was nothing I could do," Mr. Hong said. "They found his body a few weeks later?in Vietnam...
Though Gates and other experts were not able to pinpoint the woman who wrote the narrative or the year that she wrote it, they were able to confirm some basic facts. Around 1850 a self-educated female slave in North Carolina who went by the name Hannah Crafts set down a fictionalized account of her life, including a visit to Washington, D.C., and her eventual escape to the North...
Israel does not raid refugee camps and deny basic human rights (such as access to clean drinking water, food, sanitation and security) to Palestinians because they may be of a darker shade than most Israelis. Israel’s actions, rather, stem from a misconception that Israeli security can be guaranteed through the muting and virtual subjugation of the Palestinian peoples. That the Israeli soldiers conducting raids into the occupied territories are “whiter” than the Palestinians they are uprooting is merely coincidental, and therefore inconsequential...