Insight
Photo: Bill Wilson/The Anniston Star
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It's common nowadays for me to glimpse at something glimmering in a knuckle on my hand and realize that yet another sliver of glass has worked its way to the surface of my skin. The only way I can remove it is with my teeth. It's not so bad; feeling it crush to dust between my incisors is satisfying, as though it's another step away from a horrifying experience.
Deep roots: Woman carries happy memories and painful scars of her Anniston childhoodThere are many reasons why one remembers the old neighborhood of youth. Nostalgia seems to be part of the human condition. There are precious memories etched in our minds that lodge no other place. For many of us who lived in Anniston’s West End, there are also other memories that foretold a future filled with illness and pain.
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Ending the terror: Alabama activists reflect on domestic violence preventionWhen the group started its mission, it was still legal in Alabama for a man to rape his wife. A boyfriend beating his girlfriend was, as the saying goes, somebody else’s business or — even more chilling — a family matter. A police officer could arrive on a call, see a battered woman and terrified children and still have to get back in his car and leave because the victim was too scared to admit that the person who was supposed to love her was beating her instead.
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One poll Alabama doesn't need
Southern football fans are accustomed to seeing Southeastern Conference teams dominate the national rankings. Four of the top 10 in last week’s measure. But SEC states also hold five of the top 10 spots in another ranking that’s less likely to make the evening news
Southern football fans are accustomed to seeing Southeastern Conference teams dominate the national rankings. Four of the top 10 in last week’s measure. But SEC states also hold five of the top 10 spots in another ranking that’s less likely to make the evening news
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One man's global view: Blogging from the Mozambique fieldIn 1990, the streets of Nampula, Mozambique, would have been deserted. One of Africa’s most under-reported and bloodiest conflicts, Mozambique’s civil war was quietly raging. Renamo, a rebel militia financed by apartheid-ruled South Africa, might have been on patrol. Bands of soldiers traded the town back and forth, demanding more food and women each time. An estimated 900,000 were killed and 4 million dislocated.
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Images of war, again: The eternal controversy over what we can seeLast Sunday, The Star published an Associated Press article about the death of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard in Afghanistan. Imbedded AP photographer Julie Jacobson’s hurried, mundane-looking photograph of the wounded soldier on the ground being helped by a member of his unit has stirred much controversy.
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'You're gonna make it': Marine Joshua Bernard, ambushed, wounded, became another casualty in a deadly month in AfghanistanDAHANEH , Afghanistan — The pomegranate grove looked ominous. + The U.S. patrol had a tip that Taliban fighters were lying in ambush, and a Marine had his weapon trained on the trees 70 yards away. “If you see anything move from there, light it up,” Cpl. Braxton Russell told him. + Thirty seconds later, a salvo of gunfire and RPGs — rocket-propelled grenades — poured out of the grove. “Casualty! We’ve got a casualty!” someone shouted. A grenade had hit Lance Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard in the legs.
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Journal entries of AP photographer in Afghanistan
These are excerpts from journal entries by AP Photographer Julie Jacobson while she was embedded with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s Helmand province before and after the death of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard on Aug. 14, 2009. The date at each heading refers to when Jacobson wrote her entry, not necessarily to when the events took place.
These are excerpts from journal entries by AP Photographer Julie Jacobson while she was embedded with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s Helmand province before and after the death of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard on Aug. 14, 2009. The date at each heading refers to when Jacobson wrote her entry, not necessarily to when the events took place.
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The state Legislature's special session is expected to approve some "fix" for Jefferson County's fiscal crisis. While essential in the near term, this is bad news for the county long term, for all residents of Alabama, for the educational system and for democracy. What most of us don't understand, but must, is that the underlying reason that this special session had to be called in the first place is Alabama's anti-democratic and dysfunctional 1901 Constitution.
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A runner's path is often solitary, barren, without a final destination. Yet, runners embark on that path over and over and over again. Their Baptist-like devotion, strong, undaunted, is profound. They don't run to something, they say. They run to be something, to reach a plane of higher emotion or camaraderie. Some seek their inner zen, a release for an unseen element of their soul.
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Watching the centrist Democrats in Congress create more and more reasons why health care can't be fixed, I've been struck by a disquieting thought: Suppose our collective lack of response to Hurricane Katrina wasn't exceptional but, rather, the new normal in America. Suppose we can no longer address the major challenges confronting the nation. Suppose America is now the world's leading can't-do country.
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The adage in Alabama public policy — or public opinion, for that matter — used to be "Thank God for Mississippi," accompanied by a sheepish glance to the west. Wherever Alabama lagged in national rankings, it could usually count on Mississippi playing No. 50 to Alabama's No. 49.
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It has been 20 years since Omar al-Bashir and the fundamentalist National Islamic Front seized power in Sudan. Although not as notorious as his friends and fellow tyrants, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe or Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, Bashir is unique because he is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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The impending Fourth of July holiday is not likely to generate much anxiety. A day off work, a family picnic, fireworks — what could there be to worry about? But it has not always been such a stress-free holiday.
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They were clustered casually around library tables, but it was clear the teachers were in class. Ignore the fact that it's June, many of their students were at the pool and Alabama is just entering its summertime swelter. Last week, the school's teachers gathered for a common rite of summer: professional development training in which they work on the techniques that will make them more effective teachers in the fall.
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