Let pilots stick by their guns The U.S. House voted last week to allow pilots to carry guns in the cockpit, but the measure has an uncertain future largely because President Bush opposes it.
Lindh goes to prison to ponder the rest of his life John Walker Lindh, son of affluence, advantage and privilege, will have 20 years to ponder just why he turned his back on the country that afforded him the best it had to offer. Lindh, dubbed the American Taliban, entered a surprise plea of guilty to charges of aiding the theocrats who once ruled Afghanistan. ...
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Blaming us for market drop doesn't make sense AUSTIN, Texas - There's some stiff competition in the Stupidest Thing Said Yet department about the swoon in the financial markets. But among the heavy contenders we must surely count those who are now saying they know who's responsible, and it is us.
A legal notion fashioned of peach fuzz Let us imagine Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in a Greyhound bus. Too much? Then how about Chief Justice William Rehnquist in a Greyhound bus? Does the mind boggle? The mind reels.
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A love letter on the strength of one boy, and one community When our children are born, we are filled with hopes and dreams about their future lives. We want so much for them, including, often, the fulfillment of our own unrealized desires. Mostly, we love and care for them, holding ourselves in check when we know they need to make mistakes and stumble on their own, holding their hands when we can. There is so very little over which we have any control.
