Word: holocaust
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...Jews. Because generally speaking, Jews as a community are limited, their number is limited, all over the world. We know that they're not that big. Unfortunately, they were persecuted by all nations. They were persecuted by the Romans and King Edward I. And we all know the Holocaust during Hitler's time. Once seeing the history like that we can only but sympathize with them as Jews. The Arabs actually were the ones who gave them the safe haven and the protection along all these areas when they were persecuted. (See pictures of the rise of Gaddafi...
...with Iran for talks. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sending his usual supply of mixed signals to the world, supports negotiations but is outwardly defiant on budging on Iran's nuclear policy, which Iran claims is for peaceful energy purposes. To make matters worse, Ahmadinejad took Friday to again question the Holocaust and also made a bizarre call for the breakup of Europe and even Russia into smaller nation-states - a statement that may leave Russia quite perplexed and anxious. (Read about Iran and Obama's shelved missile shield...
Kriegstein agreed. Sereno, in turn, gave the remarkable specimen Kriegstein's surname (in honor of his parents, Holocaust survivors who are still alive), and listed Kriegstein as a co-author on perhaps the most important paleontology paper of the year. "In the normal course of things," says Sereno, "this fossil could have ended up on someone's mantelpiece or been forgotten in an attic somewhere and lost to science. Now China gets its property back, and Dr. Kriegstein has found immortality for his family. Everybody wins...
...just seen the CNN article about the Holocaust-denier ad and note that “Al Tompkins, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, ... said he hopes this will become a ‘teachable moment.’” It seems to me that it is also an opportunity for a premier college newspaper to apply skills for investigative journalism that are increasingly disappearing from mainstream print media. What are responsible academic researchers finding out about the motivation and mechanism of such “denial” movements, including denials of the Holocaust...
...whole episode started when Bradley R. Smith, director of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, called The Crimson looking to run a few ad insertions in this week's Crimson, hoping to influence a few "empty vessels" into rethinking Holocaust history...