Excavating Family History in Falling Through the Earth
In 
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir (Holt), Danielle Trussoni puts her own literary twist on the war memoir: Her father, Dan, was the one who served, but his experiences, and the posttraumatic stress disorder they cause, haunt the entire family, particularly Trussoni. She came to view the Vietnam War as a "hole...
On Thursday, February 9, a bipartisan group of Senators, led by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that an agreement on modifications to the USA Patriot Act's expiring provisions had been reached. The group included five Senators who had previously opposed reauthorization of the legislation to allow time for Congress to fashion a compromise that would protect reader privacy.