Author: DXO
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Buzzsaw
Funny how the sweep of decades can pulse through a ruined life, and be punctuated so poetically at the end. L. Patrick Gray III, Who Led the F.B.I. During Watergate, died yesterday. Just one month after the exposure of Deep Throat. Just a short time after he broke his years of quiet margin-writing. He was…
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Zarqawi Group Says It Killed Egyptian Envoy
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 7, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said today that it had killed the top diplomat in Egypt’s embassy in Iraq, Ihab el-Sherif, five days after gunmen seized him on a Baghdad street where he had gone unguarded to buy a newspaper. The…
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Thank You, Judith Miller
Judith Miller went to jail today. “If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press,” she read from a statement as she stood before Judge Hogan. “The right of civil disobedience is based on personal conscience, it is fundamental to our system and it is…
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City Ice Cream
I live in the middle of Chicago. I have always been a city person. I was born in the Northview Heights housing project in Pittsburgh and it is a point of pride to me that I have never lived in a suburb. I like this picture because it was taken in the street and it…
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A Town That Bled Under Hussein Hails His Trial – New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 3, 2005 DUJAIL, Iraq – The scars of what happened after an assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein, on July 8, 1982, are painfully evident in this mainly Shiite town 35 miles north of Baghdad. People lower their voices when they speak of fathers, brothers and sons who went to the…