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Op-Ed Contributor: My Savior, Their Killer

Feb. 17, 2009
The only way to look at the Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav, alias Comrade Duch, is to humanize him.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler