Author: DXO
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NYT Archive > Hellen Keller
Here’s a great obituary for Helen Keller, with excerpt: Despite the celebrity that accrued to her and the air of awesomeness with which she wassurrounded in her later years, Miss Keller retained an unaffected personality and acertainty that her optimistic attitude toward life was justified. “I believe that all through these dark and silent years,…
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God Bless Tom Cruise
Now I don’t often write about current affairs here, preferring to stick with original ideas and goofball documentation over bloggy links and comments. But I have to post about Tom Cruise and Alessandra Staley‘s take on his lecture of Matt Lauer yesterday. I really think she’s on to something. And he went way off on…
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3 Car Bombs Leave 18 Dead and 46 Hurt in a Suburb of Baghdad – New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: June 23, 2005 Earlier on Wednesday, a Sunni Arab journalist with links to a hard-line school of Sunni Islam was killed with his 17-year-old son in a drive-by shooting nearby. The killings in the northwestern Shuala district occurred on another day of widespread violence in Baghdad, with at least 24…
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Second Wave of Bombs in Baghdad Kills at Least 17
By JOHN F. BURNS and JAMES GLANZ Published: June 23, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 23 – Four car bomb blasts struck the central Baghdad commercial district of Karrada early this morning, spewing shattered glass and bits of human skin over the streets while killing at least 17 and raising the combined toll in the capital…
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Choose: More Troops in Iraq Will (Help) (Hurt)
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: June 19, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq — IF, in time, the attempt to implant a pro-Western, democratic political system in Iraq ends up buried in the desert sands, historians will have no shortage of things that went wrong. Equally, if the problems here ultimately recede, supporters of the enterprise will find…