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...Persians invented crucifixion around 2500 years ago, but other empires soon adopted it. The ancients regarded this as the worst of executions. Crucifixions displayed victims naked in public without honor. They subjected victims to the vengeful feelings of a crowd, allowing them to take pleasure in pain and breach the bonds of civility. They extended suffering for days. They left victims as food for wild beasts and birds, denying them a proper burial. Crucifixion was the practice of savages and tyrants who did not respect...
...fruit in the Shi'ite-dominated south, where fighters loyal to the young Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seemed to be abiding by a cease-fire, even as U.S. troops staged outside the holy city of Najaf. In Fallujah, by contrast, rebels killed nine U.S. Marines in a breach of the truce declared by U.S. commanders. A man who claimed to have participated in the insurgency in Fallujah was interviewed by TIME and gave a chilling description of a recent attack on the Marines there. He said when three U.S. tanks, six humvees and about 70 Marines entered...
...crew shows a great deal of power at the finish, a characteristic more marked in the breach than the observance among University crews of recent years. There is apparent, too, a better catch than usual with a consequent reduction in waste effort. The coach is devoting all his time and energy to improving the general form, realizing the curtailment placed upon him by lack of time...
...INDICATORS In Good Company The European Commission issued warnings to three more euro-zone countries set to breach the region's stability pact this year. Finance commissioner Pedro Solbes slammed the Netherlands , Italy and Greece (along with serial offenders France and Germany) for running budget deficits in excess...
...first period—capped by Reese’s goal—through its fourth opportunity three-quarters of the way into the second, Harvard crisply worked the puck through the Black Bears zone despite the best efforts of Maine’s speedy defenders to breach the passing lanes...