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...wartime Hungary, Andris--age eight and passing as a gentile under the Slavic name Andris Malesevics--learned never to urinate in front of other children, lest his circumcised penis give him away. Sensible policy. In Budapest's City Park one day in 1943, a little girl turned to him and said, "Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all the Jews will be thrown into the Danube." The child adumbrated Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who months later took charge of the deportation and extermination of Hungarian Jews...
...believe such criticism fails on at least two counts. One, it does not recognize that we, as liberators, have an interest in what follows the Taliban in Afghanistan. We cannot simply drop our bombs and depart with our best wishes, lest we find ourselves returning some years down the road to root out another terrorist regime...
...foresee an "increase in investigative activity...outside of Oregon," even medical groups historically opposed to euthanasia are denouncing the potential intrusion. Dr. Warren Jones, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, called the move a "major travesty" that will encourage physicians to curb the use of pain medications lest their bedside manner be misinterpreted...
...pilots to drop food and medicine to refugees. It is true that the Taliban do not represent all Afghans. But in a war of necessity one may not have the luxury of that distinction. The Nazis did not represent all Germans. But with the need to destroy the enemy lest he destroy us, those niceties could not be observed. Churchill's wartime speeches had few endearing words for those he insisted on calling the Hun. His bombers made the point with emphasis...
...present, the better to work current music into the soundtrack), Clark's parents found him wandering naked amid the wreckage of a spaceship in a Kansas cornfield, a fact they have hidden from him. Clark knows he is unnaturally strong--his dad won't let him play football lest he hurt someone--but forced to hide his powers, he's considered a nerd at school. There is a lot of corn in Smallville, Kans., and some of it finds its way into the script. But the series rethinks familiar Superman motifs in fresh ways. Clark's secret love Lana (Kristin...