Word: minns
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...describe my experience reading Gibbs' account, I want to say what a wonderfully written piece it is: full of solid information but thoughtful and at times poetic without being corny or hyperbolic. A very, very nice job accomplished under what I assume was tremendous pressure. KRISTINE GROTH Minneapolis, Minn...
...urge fellow Americans at home and abroad to act with calm and wisdom. In our calm, we are better brothers and a far more formidable enemy. If we too become indiscriminate terrorists, the hijackers have truly won. MICHELLE ANSORGE Minneapolis, Minn...
...this sounds a little apocryphal, that's part of the story too since Dylan--born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn.--has revised and reinvented his past from the very start of his career. On Summer Days, a track from Love and Theft, he sings, "She says, 'You can't repeat the past.' I say, 'You can't? What do you mean, you can't? Of course you can!'" Dylan talks like he sings, in that ancient lilting rasp, stressing unexpected syllables, mesmerizing with folky cadences, loping along somewhere between conversation and caterwauling. All the compositions on Love and Theft...
...cost untold billions, made a mockery of the Bill of Rights and been a total failure. Congratulations to those European governments that have dropped this bankrupt policy [WORLD, Aug. 20]. The only ones who ever benefited were the police, the prison industry and drug dealers. RICHARD WEIL St. Paul, Minn...
...reality tourists." Got no appetite for that pastrymaking jaunt to Provence? For $1,665, including room, board and air fare from the U.S., you can spend a week in Guatemala to "learn about the history of repression and political violence," courtesy of the Center for Global Education in Minneapolis, Minn. Does scuba diving in Hawaii leave you cold? For $3,299, plus airfare, you can travel through Southeast Asia to meet with land-mine victims and "learn how the secret CIA war on Laos affected the people," a three-week tour organized by the group Our Developing World in Saratoga...