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...Make no mistake about it: hurricane Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans; the breaches in the levees did. Maybe it's time the U.S. government spent its money on what is broken in our country rather than trying to fix things in other nations. Nancy H. Babendir Skokie, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death on the Wing | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...killed or allowed to die. While these events are generally accepted as historical fact, the particulars are controversial.The Turkish government has argued that the deaths were a result of ethnic conflict, disease, and famine caused by the war, and not because of an “intent to destroy...a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group,” which is the United Nations’ definition of genocide.The Massachusetts curriculum used to include some materials that depicted the events in Armenia as genocide and some that did not characterize it as such. However, the latter documents have been removed...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Teachers, Student Sue Mass. DOE | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...block then was the “right of return” of Palestinian refugees displaced by the 1947-49 war and their descendants. Rejecting the possibility of this right being implemented, Dershowitz suggested that the aim of Palestinian leaders in advocating it was to “demographically destroy Israel” by flooding the country with four million Palestinians. In its place, Dershowitz suggested a massive aid package, “in effect a mini-Marshall Plan.” Dershowitz also advocated Israel’s controversial security fence, which he claimed is an effective barrier against...

Author: By Cormac A. Early, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dershowitz Discusses Middle East | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

...care much about cogency; he’s too busy jumping hyperactively from plotline to plotline. The movie grudgingly develops a storyline in its second half. Government agents force Elena to divorce Zorro and to seduce Archduke Wilhelm (Michel Bos), a member of a European guild plotting to destroy the United States. Zorro must stop the dastardly scheme: in come the sabers and muskets! However, these badly-choreographed, ten-on-one battles are sickeningly artificial. Enjoying them is less a question of suspending belief than throwing it off a cliff and leaving it for dead. “Legend?...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Legend of Zorro | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...high court cleared the way for gay marriage, Gov. Mitt Romney invoked a law from 1913 prohibiting Massachusetts marriage licenses from being given to nonresident couples whose union would be "void" in their home state. Anti-integrationists were plain wrong then; black people had no master plan to destroy the institution of the white family. Who's to say the forces against gay marriage won't be proven Chicken Littles as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Civil Rights and Gay Rights | 10/25/2005 | See Source »

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