Educated and compete in sports. And she went all the way to the top. The amazing story of maria torpakai. But first here is my take. While americans have been obsessing about the president ial election, half way around the world, iraq is collapsing as a country. This weeks bombing in baghdad killing scores of people were one more reminder that the place remains deeply unstable and violent. And as iraq has spiralled downward, policymakers in washington have offered all kinds of advice on how to salvage it. But perhaps it is worth stepping back from iraq and looking at another country where america has been involved. Afghanistan. The United States has been engaged in afghanistan militarily and politically and economically for 15 years. It has had many surges of troops. It spent more than 1 trillion on the war by some estimates and it still pays a large portion of afghanistans defense budget. And yet last october the United Nations concluded that the insurgency has spread to more places i
Another affordable senior housing project is likely to develop near the downtown intersection of 11th and New Hampshire streets, Lawrence developer Tony Krsnich
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To the editor: Steve Jansen’s Oct. 20 local history piece “Historic former church still gets plenty of use today” is fine, as far as it goes. But there