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...Those are small flaws in an otherwise remarkable view of the medical battles in Iraq. One of my favorite scenes shows a doctor out for a walk in the Green Zone, the protected area where the U.S. government and military is headquartered and the hospital lies. "The thing I miss most is to go more than a half a mile in either direction," he said. "That's our world in Baghdad." After more than three years of war, the statement could be taken many ways...
...never really thought about my last meal.You know, the romanticized meal that always crops up in movies about executions, where embattled prisoners with sallow cheeks and orange jumpsuits get to pick what they eat before they walk the plank or sit down dramatically in the electric chair.It must be a daunting thing to realize you’re eating for the last time. I’d imagine you’d order a lot, err on the side of gluttony, then pile more on to your plate with gusto.A few weeks ago, I decided to find out. Every week...
...Gore, forming an consciously indifferent crowd that engaged in minimalist small talk while waiting for the moment to edge in. Everyone was at once eager to be noticed and trying not to be too obvious, a gaggle of awkward preeners whose self-presentation wouldn't get past the first walk-off on "America's Next Top Model...
...Since then it's been the other side's turn. This week, when Nifong charged a third suspect, team co-captain Dave Evans, Evans did not pull his jacket over his head and slouch through his perp walk. He called his own press conference. "You have all been told some fantastic lies," he declared, "and I look forward in watching them unravel in the weeks to come, as they already have in weeks past, and the truth will come out." His lawyer referred not to the victim, but "the false accuser," and released results of a polygraph supporting Evans' story...
...dorm keycard all suggesting he could not have been present when the rape is supposed to have occurred. Osborn and the other defense lawyers have raised enough challenges to Nifong's case to invite people who do not often find themselves identifying with those charged with vicious crimes to walk in their shoes, imagine what it might be like to stand accused, publicly condemned and then slowly, slowly, try to crawl back toward a life that will never be the same...