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...Shoah, the day when the world Jewish community mourns the slaughter of six million of their people at the hands of a nation possessed by hate. It is a day to remember, it is also a day to remember in the right context. The Holocaust, perhaps the most brutal expression of widespread race-hatred and genocide in history, deserves a place apart from the contemporary political debate...
...people once involved in military dolphin projects, the animals will be used in Puget Sound in much the same way as they were in Viet Nam. One probable difference is that the dolphins will simply mark the location of the intruder or ensnare swimmers through some means less brutal than darts. Unless war breaks out, underwater saboteurs at the Trident base are more likely to be antinuclear protesters or animal-rights activists than enemy agents. That raises the bizarre possibility that dolphins might help the Navy arrest dolphin lovers...
After the Reagans, whose immediate familes were estranged and alienated, left the White House, the Bushes arrived, complete with family portrait. After hiring Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater and conducting one of the most brutal campaigns in recent memory, George Bush turned into Pappa Bush...
Lebanon (pop. 3 million), once a lovely oasis of fine beaches, snowcapped mountains and cosmopolitan culture, may be in its death throes. Its brutal civil war, which began 14 years ago this week, shows no sign of ending. Since March 8 the heaviest bombardments in four years have killed 177 and wounded 591. Equally devastating, men, women and children are suffering mental breakdowns from the protracted, indiscriminate terror...
Sharp memories of the brutal past were jogged as well by a new play, Four Interrogations, the story of an old woman unfairly charged under Stalin as an "enemy of the people." Before the curtain rises, the audience sits in darkness while voices screech Stalinist slogans over a loudspeaker. Then an imposing photo of Stalin is projected onto a black curtain. Finally, a spotlight sweeps over the audience, stopping now and then to hold first one person, then another and another in its sudden white glare...