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Viewpoint: Shot Like an Animal. A family in Costa Rica mourns. BY LELAND BAXTER-NEAL The story immediately hit headlines around the world: U.S. federal air marshals shot and killed a man after he came running down the aisle of American Airlines flight 924 at the Miami International Airport, clutching a bag. Official reports say Rigoberto Alpízar, a 44-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, did not respond to the orders of two air marshals who sprung from their seats in plain clothes and asked Rigoberto, at gunpoint, to get on the ground. Instead, he "uttered something about a bomb" and reached into his bag. The two officials squeezed the triggers of their powerful .357-caliber handguns and brought Rigoberto's life to an end in the passageway connecting the plane to the airport. There was no bomb. [Read More]
Living Out : Boulder Holders. An elevating experience. BY SALLY SHEKLOW I've never found a comfortable bra. Underwires poke, athletic bras mash me into uni-breast, and the "leisure bra" couldn't be more grossly misnamed. I'm marginalized plenty for my politics, gender, size, religion, sexual orientation and ambiguous station on the butch-femme continuum. Must I be a brassiere misfit, too? [Read More]
Viewpoint: Conventional Terror. Iraqi blogger confronts effects of U.S. chemical weapons. BY RIVERBEND Riverbend, who uses a pseudonym for protection, is a 26-year-old Iraqi woman whose blog, Baghdad Burning, has captured the attention of thousands of Internet users worldwide. Her first year of posts, beginning August 2003, has been turned into a book: Baghdad Burning, published by Feminist Press. This excerpt is from a Nov. 18 post. Visit Riverbend's blog at riverbendblog.blogspot.com It sat on my PC desktop for five days. The first day I read about it on the Internet, on some site, my heart sank. White phosphorous in Falloojeh. I knew nothing about white phosphorous, of course, and a part of me didn't want to know the details. [Read More]
Architecture: Westward Ho. An architect's view on where to grow. BY GRANT SEDER Building projects in Eugene seldom become realities without a certain allotment of controversy and pain, some of which might be avoided if the planning process were more complete. Two current examples are the siting for the new McKenzie-Willamette hospital — the dart-board-planning method; and the West Eugene Parkway — the draw-a-line-on-the-map-and-call-the-bulldozers method. [Read More]
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