"The only war in modern times as to which we can be sure, first, that no skill and patience of diplomacy could have avoided it, and second, that preservation of the American Union and abolition of negro slavery were two vast triumphs of good by which even the inferno of war was justified."
–Lord Morley, quoted in J. T. Winterich's Introduction to Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
