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...were protecting. Countries such as Canada already require that peacekeepers attend lectures on the host country’s history and customs before sending them on their mission. Preventing conflict and assisting civilians requires a completely different set of skills than killing and destroying. You do not send a butcher to do a surgeon’s work; you should not send a soldier to do a peacekeeper?...
...same effect on her six siblings, nearly all of whom, she says, "are involved in some way in Native American health or education." Erdrich's fiction, of course, has reflected this side of her background, but she now has finished three-quarters of a new novel called The Master Butcher's Singing Club, inspired by the name of a club to which her paternal, German grandfather once belonged...
...years of talks with Israel yet failed to win a solution to the refugee problem, which dates to fighting during Israel's 1948 war of independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace, they still see him as "the butcher," the ex-general found by an Israeli report to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at Sabra and the neighboring Shatila camp during...
...then there's the moral component, which they were just talking about on "The Sopranos" (suffice it to say the scene involved a gambling butcher, his pinky finger and a meat cleaver): Honor your debts. Critics of the bill contend that often, credit card companies' "predatory lending practices" lure unsuspecting borrowers into debts they can't afford - and therefore the credit card companies should take the lumps with the risk...
...from somewhere. In parts of England last week the dark mood of rural inhabitants seemed to reflect a sense of betrayal, anger at the overturning of an old order. "Leave us alone," says a farmer in Highampton. "No one cares if we live or die." Adrian Edwards, the local butcher, says he will allow his supplies to run out this week, rather than sell imported meat. "That's not something we're going to do," he says. "There's a principle involved here." But unlike foot-and-mouth disease, such empathy didn't travel far. About 10 km down...