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...elections there would have been some hope of restoring a form of democracy in Pakistan. We are now faced with turmoil in an already troubled and volatile part of the world, and since the West depends so much on Pakistan's support in the campaign against terrorism, I fear we will be subjected to a sustained campaign of violence. Gabrielle Spray, COLCHESTER, ENGLAND...
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...even boring affairs, but the shouts of "Lie!" and "Slander!" from the agitated crowd suggest that the latest offering from Jan Tomasz Gross is garnering attention in circles way beyond those of academic historians. Gross has come to Warsaw's Entrepreneurship and Management Academy to promote his new book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, and the visible police presence and the plethora of TV cameras in the jam-packed hall make clear that the topic has aroused strong emotions...
...Poland became internationally famous for his 2001 book Neighbors, chronicling the massacre of Jews in the village of Jedwabne during the Nazi occupation. That book stoked controversy in Poland because it demonstrated that the Jews of Jedwabne had been brutally murdered not by the Germans, but by local Poles. Fear, published in English in 2006 but first released in Polish just two weeks ago, takes a wider look at post-war anti-Semitism in Poland, investigating why Jews returning to their homes having survived Nazi atrocities were terrorized and sometimes murdered by Poles. Needless...
More than one commentator used the word "panic" to characterize the sell-off. Panic - as if the sudden fear might be a bit of an overreaction, a tad on the hysterical side. Should...