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She was a Stanford graduate and Fulbright scholar who went to South Africa to register people to vote in the waning days of Apartheid and was stabbed to death by a mob one night. Yesterday, Amy Biehl’s mother and one of the four men convicted of her 1993 murder sat together on stage at Fenway High School. Together, they brought a message of truth and reconciliation to Boston kids whose own lives are plagued by violence. “We as a family had to figure out how to love and respect and honor her memory,” Linda Biehl recalled of the days following...

I am sickened. I want the cavalry to come in and take these pretenders away. Or better, I want the extras in this bad film to burn down the stage. But, this is no B-movie. George W. Bush is back in office and that means for the next four years I cannot go home. For good and for bad, I will remain an ex-patriot in Germany. My reasoning is simple: If there is enough support for someone like Bush to get re-elected, I simply do not belong in America. I don't even fit into my notoriously flip-floppy home state of...