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...turns of events, might have happened. Indeed, what didn't happen serves to underline the significance of what did. Such ruminations are the purview of counterfactual history, the examination of alternative outcomes based on plausible historical scenarios. To help distinguish frivolous flights of imagination from penetrating insights, counterfactual historians employ two standards...
...kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls. In Lebanon interrogators employ the "Flying Carpet": a procedure during which an electric rod is shoved under the genitals of a prisoner strapped to a chair. A soldier takes a photo of the rod being applied "to show it to us before we meet our maker," says a former inmate who survived...
...president of the Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs, is proud that Hage-Ali is showing the world the other side of the African woman. "Not just the woman with the child on her back, pregnant, wood on her head," she explains, "but the African women who operate computers, who employ people, who generate resources to help in the growth of the national economy." Those are the women Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, Ghana's First Lady, has drawn into the biggest and best-organized women's association in Ghana, the 31st December Women's Movement, named after the day her husband...
Last week an activist group called the National Labor Committee accused Nike and other companies of running virtual slave factories in China, alleging that workers are habitually overworked and underpaid. It's the kind of charge Nike has faced, and denied, repeatedly regarding its operations in Asia. Nike subcontractors employ nearly 500,000 workers in plants in Indonesia, China and Vietnam...
Some Jews and non-Jews who admittedly employ stereotypes argue that they are not offensive, only humorous. However, the stereotypical Jewish mother--although endearing--is essentially not a `good mother,' and the traditional J.A.P. image is more an Ivana Trump distortion of consummerism than an indulged beauty queen...