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...Demagogic leaders can exploit a host of religious texts to advocate the use of violence. Even Satan can recite Scripture. Perhaps we should be less concerned about the particular doctrinal precepts of Islam and more concerned about poverty and insufficient educational standards in the Middle East. Stephen D. Wagner III Massapequa Park, New York...
...party of Cortes (who pushed quickly through what remained of Mayan territory on his way to the bloody battle of Tenochtitlan), the man holding up the cross was no particular friend to the indians. It was not until 1537, Mann said, that, after considerable debate both ways, Pope Paul III got around to proclaiming that "Indians themselves indeed are true men" and should not be "deprived of their liberty." In the intervening 18 years roughly a third of Mexico's 25 million indigenous population died of smallpox the Europeans brought with them, and the Spanish had enslaved most...
Author Evan W. Thomas III ’73 is an assistant managing editor of Newsweek, where he has written extensively about the ongoing Iraq war. Meanwhile, he has spent the past few years working as a naval historian after-hours. (His 2003 biography of the seafaring American revolutionary John Paul Jones was a New York Times bestseller.) In his newly-released “Sea of Thunder,” Thomas’ moonlighting and his day-job converge. The subjects Thomas tackles—from military infighting to the suicide bomber’s mentality—could...
...Thunder By Evan W. Thomas III '73 Simon & Schuster...
Leroy Terrelonge III ’07, Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator and self-described ‘Jamerican,’ has a pretty lofty goal—he’s trying to learn all the United Nations languages. He’s fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Persian, and says he speaks Arabic, Russian, Chinese, and American Sign Language “to a lesser degree.” What’s next? Hopefully Swahili. Not surprisingly, his dream job is to work for the UN. His cell phone is programmed in French...