SACRAMENTO, Calif. –Even in defeat Marion Jones cracked the front page of the Sunday New York Times. Once the media darling of her sport, the Triangle’s best-known athlete had promised to speak to reporters after Saturday’s 100-meter dash final at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Instead Jones and her partner, 100-meter world record holder Tim Montgomery, […]
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Retired general says U.S. must get tougher
The situation in Iraq may be spiraling out of control, but that didn’t seem to faze retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, who was the keynote speaker last month in Raleigh at The John Locke Foundation Headliner Luncheon. McInerney, who is a senior Fox News military analyst, went through a litany of nations–Iran, […]
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Former editor takes anti-death penalty post
As editor of the NC Catholic, John Strange devoted a lot of his time to coverage of the death penalty, an issue which the church–and Strange–take a strong position against. Last month, Strange began his new job as communications director for the Carrboro-based People of Faith Against the Death Penalty. In December, Diocese of Raleigh […]
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Robert Jensen assails American terrorism
“For more than five decades throughout the Third World, the United States has deliberately targeted civilians or engaged in violence so indiscriminate that there is no other way to understand it except as terrorism.” –Robert Jensen, The Houston Chronicle, Sept. 14, 2001 Robert Jensen is no Dale Carnegie. He’s not trying to be. So it […]
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“Soldiers in Iraq understand how we support the troops by bringing them home”
FAYETTEVILLE–During wartime, life changes around this Army town that is home to Fort Bragg, the nation’s largest Army post. In the maternity ward at Fort Bragg’s Womack Army Medical Center, labor and delivery nurse Beth Pratt sees a lot of mothers going it alone. “I see a lot of women having babies without their husbands,” […]
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Anti-war protesters plan Fayetteville march
As talk of war heated up in 2002 and 2003, activists from around the Triangle took to the streets. Regular anti-war vigils were held in all three Triangle communities, culminating with a mass rally that drew about 7,000 people to the State Capitol on Feb. 15, 2003, to oppose a unilateral attack on Iraq. Then […]
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Actors unite to teach A Lesson
Throughout the early- to mid-20th century, hundreds of often innocent African-American men were executed for crimes such as burglary and rape. Many of these capital cases were decided by all-white juries in county courts throughout the South. There was often no appeals process, and the death sentences were carried out by individual counties. Such is […]
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AWOL soldier didn’t want to ‘aim high’
(Second of Two Parts) Before he went AWOL to Canada, U.S. Army specialist Jeremy Hinzman led a somewhat double life. As a soldier in the 82nd Airborne, Hinzman, 25, never knew when he might get the call to go fight in a war he didn’t believe in. While many of his army peers were hanging […]
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Anti-death penalty advocates question Easley’s clemency process
Last month, Raymond Dayle Rowsey became the eighth person executed in North Carolina in a 20-week period, marking the largest volume of executions here in more than 50 years and the most of any state in the nation during that period. In all eight cases, N.C. Gov. Mike Easley denied clemency for the death row […]
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Fort Bragg soldier flees to Canada
(First of Two Parts) On New Year’s Eve, Jeremy Hinzman sat in a McDonald’s on N.C. 401 in Fuquay-Varina explaining his precarious situation. On Dec. 20, Hinzman, a U.S. Army specialist stationed at Fort Bragg, got the news he had dreaded. His unit–the 504th Brigade, 2nd Battalion–would be shipping out to Iraq shortly after the […]