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A hard fall for lawyer who struggled to escape gang life

On an unseasonably warm day in May 1997, Isaac Guillen marched in a stream of graduates to collect a diploma marking a new stage in his life: Juris Doctor. Beneath his gown were tattoos of barbed…
PUBLISHED: June 5, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1777 words)

Pain Is A Gift, And Other Notes From A Terrified Father During A Seven-Week-Premature Birth

When the baby cried, I knew it wasn't gonna die. They had just pulled my son out of my wife and whisked him over to one of those fancy hotel pans that you put newborns in, and there was a brief…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3216 words)

Counter-Terrorism Is Getting Complicated

On November 1, 2011, four codgers who gathered at this Waffle House in Toccoa, Georgia, as well as at the Shoney's and in the home of Fred Thomas, were arrested by the FBI for plotting acts of mass…
AUTHOR:Tom Junod
PUBLISHED: Jan. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1952 words)

a story for Holocaust Memorial Day

PUBLISHED: Jan. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)

Inquiry Grew Into Concerns of a Cover-Up

Jerry Sandusky was arrested Nov. 5, above, and charged with the sexual abuse of eight boys. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A critical break in the investigation of Jerry Sandusky came via a posting…
AUTHOR:Jo Becker
PUBLISHED: Nov. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2777 words)

The Italian Job

The old-world values that define the component maker Campagnolo make it so beloved by the faithful that they describe it as a soul instead of a brandwhich in today's cost-cutting, outsourced…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6561 words)

Whitey in exile

At least a twice a day, Carol Gasko would crouch on the sidewalk in front of her Santa Monica apartment building to feed an abandoned, tiger-striped cat while her husband, Charlie, stood by…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5610 words)

What They've Come to Find at Occupy Wall Street Is America

THE DIN BEYOND THE DRUM CIRCLE /// "You know, this is sort of an anarchistic bunch kids but I really am amazed for the respect they have," says unofficial Zuccotti Park librarian Eric Seligson…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2243 words)

The Secret History of Guns

The eighth-grade students gathering on the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento were planning to lunch on fried chicken with Californias new governor, Ronald Reagan, and then tour…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1789 words)
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