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...Iraq is coming. The demonstrators shout, "No blood for oil!" In his State of the Union address, President Bush declares, "We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers." Which is it? Well, it ain't for oil. And it is for more than liberty...
...assume war is appropriate. The real question is, Why should the U.S. go to war at such extreme cost and hazard on the basis of nothing more than speculation? I supported the last war against Iraq because it was a necessary response to Iraq's war of aggression and conquest. I do not support Bush's planned invasion of Iraq because it is a war of aggression being pursued for political ends. THOMAS D. WALKER Carmichael, Calif...
...joining the E.U., 100% would vote no," the man says. "But if you did a secret ballot, 90% would say yes." Why? In public, the farmers don't want to be seen capitulating to sinister forces from Brussels who are thought to be paving the way for a German conquest-by-checkbook. But privately, they have already calculated how much their E.U. subsidies will be worth. Having renounced Karl Marx, the people of the east are finding that Europe is like the club described by Groucho: not quite so desirable now that it will take them as members. What began...
...Rent 1492: Conquest of Paradise, starring Gerard Depardieu. If it’s unavailable, try Depardieu in the delightful romantic comedy Green Card, co-starring Andie MacDowell...
...will believe that human beings fought each other over a potato?' So asks this utterly unsentimental, open-eyed, harrowing portrait of ghetto life during the Holocaust...Rosenfeld was a modestly successful writer of novels and novellas when the Nazi Anschluss forced him to flee to Prague. Following the German conquest of Czechoslovakia, he was transported to the ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was put to work in the statistics bureau...Officially, and with the knowledge and permission of the Nazi overseers, Rosenfeld recorded such matters as death, food rations, decrees from the ghetto leadership, and reports from the Jewish...