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...Greek myths by way of James Joyce's Ulysses. The "Ulysses" chapter takes place near the end of Fun Home, when Bechdel must read it for course credit. At the same time she comes out to her parents, though her father says nothing about it or his own truth. "Like Stephen and Bloom at the National Library, our paths crossed but did not meet," she writes. Her mother reveals the truth a few weeks later, to her daughter's utter surprise. "I'd been upstaged," she writes, "demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents...
...That is why the apparent failure by at least a dozen Marines to come forward and tell the truth about what happened in Haditha has senior Corps commanders as worried about the incident as they are about the actions of the two or three Marines who allegedly did most of the killing. If the horrors of Haditha are borne out, and becomes the worst massacre in the 231-year history of the Corps, it will cause a shudder to the very top. Explains a former Marine officer, "We build a small Corps of men and women who truly believe that...
...schools, I have never felt so alienated from the very idea of Christianity and all its sociopolitical implications as I do today. When the end comes for me, I'm banking on God's being an independent. Erin M. Griffin Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S. I appreciated Sullivan's stating the truth about Christianism and Christianists - very appropriate terms - and the similarities Christianists have with Islamists. Let me add, however, that no matter which beliefs people adhere to, instead of blindly following out-of-context phrases from ancient, and therefore dare I say slightly out-of-date books, I would pray...
...truth, it was not merely our information that proved faulty; it was also our state of mind. In the run-up to war, the Bush Administration repeated one message again and again: Time was running out. "We have every reason to assume the worst," declared President Bush. "Time is not on our side," insisted Dick Cheney...
...have spent time in Haditha in recent weeks, to uncover the facts of the massacre. Belated as the investigation was, the residents of Hay al-Sinnani say they were gratified by its thoroughness. That there have been three separate enquiries suggests the U.S. military ?want to get at the truth,? says Walid Abdel Khaliq, the doctor of the Haditha morgue where the victims' bodies were taken...