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...Duty (Knopf; 425 pages; $23), demonstrates that he made the right career move. The novel picks up Kai's story in 1964, when he arrives at West Point to honor his father's wish that he become a professional soldier. As a plebe, Kai is once again subjected to brutal treatment, and as America steps up its involvement in Vietnam, he again must struggle to reconcile the Asian and the American aspects of his identity...
...world's media were flooded with bloody, unforgettable images from South Africa: two white, neo-Nazi militiamen -- wounded in a gun battle with black troops in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- were executed in front of a crowd of stunned photojournalists. What was it like to record this brutal scene? Time's Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod asked several of the photographers involved...
After all was said and done at the NCCA Fencing Championships yesterday at Brandeis, after over seven hours of hard, brutal, ungentlemanly competition, a Harvard man stood above the fray...
This time Washington's talk of vigorous negotiation seemed more than a cover for inaction. Bosnian Croats and the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government were showing renewed interest in working together, despite brutal fighting in the year since their anti-Serb alliance split apart. Bosnian Croat forces had sought to carve out a ministate for eventual merger into a Greater Croatia, but Muslim forces were gaining the upper hand. Unlike a string of previous failed cease-fires, the truce struck last week led swiftly to the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers along confrontation lines and the withdrawal of artillery and mortars...
...Hebron massacre may have been the act of one man, but the responsibility is shared by many, including some of those condemning the brutal, unholy shooting. Dr. Baruch Goldstein was an extreme members of an extremist group in an extraordinary position. But the settlements were created by the State of Israel, and supported by American Jews (through, among other means, US loan guarantees), and deliberately populated by the most zealous Zionist expansionists, who were armed and supported by the Israeli army...