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...finance his weapons programs while leaving thousands of innocent Iraqis, including children, to starve or die for lack of good medical care. Is it moral to allow this intense suffering to continue indefinitely while we congratulate ourselves for giving "peace" a chance? Is it more moral to maintain that horror indefinitely rather than to try to win a quick war to depose Saddam, free the Iraqi people from tyranny and end the sanctions...
...wake-up song is key, and the unabashedly loud, melodramatic beats of the ’80s start my day with a taut drum line, an over-emoted chorus and a definite pop. Some people seem to regard this decade with horror, but I’m convinced that, as a pre-teen in the ’80s, I completely missed a wave of exciting music. To rectify this missed-timing, I joined the Leverett House Committee (HoCo) with the express purpose of organizing the Leverett ’80s Dance. Bon Jovi’s dramatic power ballads...
...career criminal with a good night job. Prison doesn’t mean shit to me,” he said. Since then, Goldstein has changed his tune somewhat after serving only 10 days of his 60-day sentence at Rikers Island. “It was a horror,” Goldstein tells FM. “It was worse than any third world country. They performed surgery on me, the D.A. of Brooklyn [Charlie Hynes] told the correctionals that I would leave Rikers Island in a pine...
DIED. LARRY LESUEUR, 93, Peabody Award--winning CBS correspondent who was part of the elite group, called Murrow's Boys, hired by Edward R. Murrow to cover Europe during World War II; in Washington. Vividly illuminating the horror with intimate details, like the look on a soldier's face, LeSueur covered the blitz by German bombers in London and wrote the book Twelve Months That Changed the World about his time at the Russian front. On Aug. 25, 1944, he gave Americans the first radio report on the liberation of Paris...
GUIDELINES There are more than 2,000 registered trekking guides in Kathmandu alone, and while most offer honest, impeccable service, horror stories abound. When choosing a guide, make sure he or she has been accredited by the Hotel Management and Tourism Training Centre, is familiar with the area you will be visiting and can arrange emergency-helicopter evacuation service should a member of your party be injured. Check online travel chat rooms for recommendations and reviews. (Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree travel forum is a good place to start; go to lonelyplanet.com.) Beware of guides who tout their own services...