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...aircraft carriers off Okinawa; American G.I.s blown to bits by 16-in. mortar shells in Tarawa; a Japanese woman throwing her baby and then herself off a cliff in Saipan rather than surrender; the frozen bodies of American G.I.s massacred by German SS in the Ardennes Forest; the beaten carcass of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging by his heels in a square in Milan; and, of course, the emaciated corpses of slaughtered Jews piled up like cords of wood at Dachau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitnesses to War | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...seen, and certainly not right for you if your tastes fall on the squeamish side of Diane Arbus. Nachtwey surpasses in pure disgust value even Joel-Peter Witkin, who is known for raiding Mexican morgues in search of subjects. In one Nachtwey photograph taken in Rwanda in 1994, a carcass lies rotting in front of a church; the fact that it hasn't been removed hints that there are more nearby, which of course the other photographs demonstrate to be the case. Piles of bodies-some with limbs hacked off or torn away by scavenging animals-decay among lush vegetation...

Author: By Graeme Wood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nachtwey Shoots the Dead | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...there was any doubt remaining in my mind as I walked into the theater, it was banished forever by the opening scene, which featured the bloody carcass of a dead Santa lying face down in the snow...

Author: By Richard Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reindeer games Sleighs 'Em | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...fooled into thinking it doesn't happen here. Go ask your friend in the Owl. Ask why the men's rugby team was suspended two years ago--someone will show you a bloody carcass of a goat...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The "V" Spot: Harvard Hazed by Vermont Scandal | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...Salieri to our Mozart, the American Basketball Association to our National Basketball Association, the Betamax to our VHS. Yale is much like the now deceased Soviet Union--a place that had lots of tanks and other superficial signs of strength, but that, on the inside, was really a rotting carcass of mediocrity...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Always Second Best | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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