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...first time in six years that the Monticello Association, which comprises some 700 descendants of Jefferson, had held its annual reunion without a horde of reporters and photographers in attendance--or the extended family members who had triggered the controversy. The once obscure association, which administers the graveyard at Monticello, got caught in a media storm in 1998, after a DNA study confirmed to the satisfaction of many that a male member of Jefferson's family had fathered at least one child with a mulatto slave named Sally Hemings (she gave birth to at least six, and possibly seven, children...
...reason for the Easy Company's designation, he noted, "That's a great story. And although there's obviously nothing 'easy' about what Easy Company is doing in Iraq, that is just the sort of irony that appeals to Marines, who are known for their lighthearted, whistling-past-the-graveyard sense of humor...
...Italys' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential of bootlegging ... There was enough intraorganizational feuding to fill a graveyard ... To stop the killing, said [the Mob's modern founding father Salvatore] Maranzano, the gangs ... would henceforth be recognized as families, each with its own territorial limits ... The organization's code of conduct [was] a combination of such qualities as manliness, honor and willingness to keep secrets. Its requirements have...
...plan to reunite the Greek and Turkish sides of the Mediterranean island. Since then, Greek Cypriots have taken up their President's call with fervor. Oxi fever is sweeping southern Cyprus: the slogan screams out from highway billboards, T shirts and posters; one hearse in Paphos drove to the graveyard with an oxi sticker on the windshield. From the pulpit, Cypriot Orthodox priests have pilloried the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a "Judas" and branded his plan dangerous, even "satanic." Mobile phones are lighting up with anti-Annan sms messages. "What do you say to the Annan...
...this is to say that Israel knows morally that “the proper place for terrorists is a jail cell,” but Israel cannot always place them there. Consequently, placing them in a graveyard can be morally justified when killing is more beneficial and less costly than leaving the terrorists alive and free to kill one’s own citizens. Moral decisions are not made lightly in Israel, and The Crimson is in no place to judge their ethics...