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...first modern concentration camps, set up by the British during the Boer War. Michener reconstructs that war, and its scenes of tenacity and loathing. Says one Afrikaner, summing up the lessons learned in that conflict: "When you are twelve, use your knowledge against the English boys that age. At eighteen, use it against the young men in college. At thirty, against the Hog-genheimers [Jewish mining barons] in Johannesburg. At fifty, against the government people in Pretoria. And when you're an old man like me, keep using...
...eighteen months SALT was a major administration effort, Wexler says, adding that she organized hundreds of meetings for interest groups all over the country to brief them on the advantages and the importance of the arms limitations treaty. "The invasion of Afghanistan stalled our efforts. It was very frustrating," she says...
...Conant Hall group is not unique Gerry Kass, a representative of Foster Parents Plan, said. Many college-age groups -- particularly fraternities and sororities -- sponsor children, often until the child turns eighteen...
...first-rate colleges and flaunt the trappings of affluence; many drive around in Mercedes. Yet for such youths, there is trouble in paradise. Among local therapists, the area is known as "the suicide belt." In a 17-month period ending last summer, 28 teen-agers took their own lives. Eighteen died by gunshot, eight by hanging and two by lying down in front of trains...
Within 40 minutes the battle was over. Eighteen paintings had been mutilated and burned; four painters were under arrest. The infectious spores of bourgeois formalism, carried by Jews and other rootless cosmopolitans, had been sanitized; the integrity of the official style of Socialist Realism stood vindicated...