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Last week Bonn strengthened its demand for the return of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who fled to the Soviet Union in March to escape manslaughter charges arising from his shoot-to-kill orders to prevent East Germans escaping to the West. But generally there is little clamor for...
Can a rationalizing modernity then be so different from 15th century France? Gilles de Rais, a comrade in arms of St. Joan of Arc, was one of the most famous soldiers in the Hundred Years War. But he used his power as a feudal lord to commit multiple murders with...
Not everyone is happy about his execution. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children's Television in Cambridge, Mass., says the issue has been overblown in the press and criticizes CBS's rush to judgment: "It begins to smack of McCarthyism, where people were being pulled off the...
It is a curious and somewhat ironic commentary on high government that the designated roughnecks like Adams and Sununu often end up as victims of the terrible swift sword that they loved to wield so much. Adams by all accounts enjoyed laying about in righteous fervor in the name of...
Would viewing a prisoner's execution on TV make people more in favor of the death penalty?