Word: holocaustic
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...America's leading architects, James Polshek, who did the new, award-winning Hayden Planetarium in New York City. The exhibits that will tell the story of Clinton's life and times are being curated by Ralph Appelbaum, who worked on the planetarium as well as the distinguished U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Clinton is, not surprisingly, "one of the most attentive clients we've ever had," Polshek says. The President has decreed that the design be "elegant but not pompous." And yes, there will be some architectural allusion to that bridge to the 21st century...
...child in Poland, Anne Skorecki Levy survived the Holocaust; as a grandmother in Louisiana, she confronted ex-Klansman David Duke in his run for Governor. Powell, a Tulane University history professor, tells this tale with wonderful narrative grace and moral force. He deftly explores ethical compromises and nuances: the Levy family's decision to pass as Aryan during the war; the struggles between the assimilated Reform Jews of New Orleans, reluctant to stir up trouble; and the tight-knit "New American" club of Holocaust survivors who insisted on aggressively bearing witness against neo-Nazis...
Ozick blames everyone from Frank's father--who withheld parts of the diary from publication--to high school English teachers for eclipsing the dark, honest observations of the famous adolescent Holocaust victim...
...Amazon was too big to be destroyed by one generation?s folly. The vulnerability revealed by El Ni?o of 1998 shows the world that this isn?t true. The decision to pave 700 km of road in the rain forest doesn?t seem like a global issue, but the holocaust that might follow that seemingly innocuous transportation decision could well contribute to a global disaster...
...pursuit of justice continues to this day, and even into our own society. Dr. Owens Wiwa filed a civil suit in the United States of America shortly after his brother's execution in 1995. Wiwa accuses Shell of effecting a holocaust against his people, alleging that they are guilty of summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, violations of the rights to life, liberty, security of person, and peaceful assembly, wrongful death, assault and battery, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and conspiracy...