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...equate the atrocities that strongman Slobodan Milosevic and his Serbian forces are committing with the horrors of World War II is bizarre [LETTERS, April 26]. The Holocaust was far more atrocious in that a whole population was not only murdered but also degraded through propaganda and concentration camps. What is happening to the Albanians is certainly a catastrophe, but the genocide is on a small scale compared to the Holocaust. DAVID W. PETTY Oregon...
...that point in the campaign, Huckabee was considered a nonfactor, which gave him the freedom to sermonize in ways that his front-running opponents had to avoid. In his speech he invoked Old Testament prophets, referred to the "holocaust" of abortion, and declared "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue, and not a recently acquired second language." A few media (including TIME) noted that Huckabee received more than half of the on-site votes in a straw poll, but most missed the story...
...audience. "I come today as one not who comes to you but as one who comes from you," he said. "You are my roots." He mentioned that he had been a Baptist pastor. He said same-sex marriage defies "the holy word of God." He called abortion a "holocaust." And then he came back to the question of roots. "I think it's important that the language of Zion is a mother tongue and not a recently acquired second language...
...aisle—save maybe Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)—can claim to possess. This goes a long way toward moderating his image as a social conservative crusader. His likeability somehow makes it less scary to many voters when he compares abortion to the Holocaust or says of the genocide in Darfur, “I think we have some role to play in it, but I guess what disturbs me even more, we have not even addressed the genocide that’s going on and the infanticide in our own country with the slaughter...
...firm's partners - who himself was seriously wounded. Meanwhile, the limited strength of the explosion leads experts like Jacquard to doubt other organizations in the same building might have actually been the primary targets of attack. Those include the Shoah Foundation - dedicated to research on the Holocaust- on the same floor as the law firm and a first-floor legal practice that French President Nicolas Sarkozy once partially owned and worked at on and off since co-founding it in 1987 (though he sold his stake earlier this year). Within hours of the blast, officials had already termed the bombing...