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...outside Ypres. But these are not the names of all who died in a whole war; they are not even the names of all who died on a single battlefield. They commemorate the Britons, together with about 13,000 Canadians and Australians, who died at Ypres between 1914 and August 1917 and have no marked grave. (A separate memorial lists an additional 34,927--also without marked graves--who died at Ypres the following year...
...Europeans the 20th century was a time of unimaginable horror. From the guns of August 1914 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Europe was racked by the two bloodiest wars in history, by industrial genocide and by two murderous ideologies. For 44 years, the Continent was divided as never before. The legacy of all this is a deep aversion to--almost a loathing of--military force. For many modern Europeans, war is a ghastly, primitive business. (Every time I call my 95-year-old aunt in Britain, I get a little lecture on the evils...
...August Strindberg’s The Father is a dark, deeply misogynist play. It tells of women’s deceitful, controlling nature that results in a man’s insanity, emasculation and ultimate death. But despite its objectionable bias, the play remains relevant today in its honest, albeit paranoiac, look at the core of sexual relationships...
...Program” that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women to donate eggs,” he says. “My feeling, of course...
...anxious to receive her housing notification. “I was so excited about meeting my roommates,” the current sophomore recalls fondly. “I asked for geographical diversity because I thought it would make things interesting.” When her letter arrived in August, Ashley learned she would be living in a four-person suite. Among her future roommates: Jane, who is now a sophomore in Eliot House...