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...make. He sticks to his guns and does not retreat. Twenty or 30 years from now, he will be described as a man of vision and courage. He stands up for what he believes is right and does not ask the world for its opinion. Mark King Lyons, Nebraska, U.S. You chose President Bush for "sticking to his guns." The problem is, he isn't the one manning those guns. It's the unfortunate troops in Iraq, many of them reservists and National Guard members, who are fighting and dying in Bush's ill-conceived war. David Sheffield Los Angeles...
...search of a serial killer. The dragnet did not catch the killer. Of the 18 publicized U.S. sweeps, only one--a narrow sampling of 25 workers at a nursing home--has been successful, according to a 2004 study by criminologist Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Walker called the sweeps "unproductive" and said that if they are to continue, national guidelines are urgently needed...
...there was no cruising for Ogunwole to get to that ultimate match. Ogunwole topped No. 2 Les Sigman of Nebraska-Omaha, and earned a 3-1 win over LSU’s No. 4 Scott Coleman. The Crimson heavyweight also defeated No. 8 Ryan Allen of Wisconsin-Lacrosse 7-3 in the quarterfinals to advance to the final round...
...case, Matthew's wise men were a classic case of fish out of water. ("Like a meeting of Iranian ayatullahs in Nebraska," quips Theodore Jennings Jr. of the Chicago Theological Seminary.) This impression may have been no accident, since it expressed Matthew's growing frustration at the majority of fellow Jews who dismissed his messianic claims for Jesus and may have ostracized and persecuted some of his co-believers. Thus it was the Magi rather than Jews who followed the star to Jerusalem and innocently alerted Herod. In a dire foreshadowing of Christ's Passion, Matthew reports that rather than...
...suddenly you’re a junior with the reality that at some point in the near future, you’re expected to know what you want to do with your life. It almost makes me wish I’d grown up on a farm in Nebraska, that I could and would be expected to return to it afterward. Not really—but you know what I mean...