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...Another Inconvenient Truth As a grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide, I was intrigued to read Samantha Power's compelling Commentary "Honesty Is the Best Policy" [Oct. 29]. I've been alarmed by congressional opposition to the resolution to hold Turkey responsible for the mass killing of Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Political expediency should play no role in this debate; the facts overwhelmingly support what many in the world recognize as the 20th century's first genocide. Denial only perpetuates the suffering of the families affected by this horrific tragedy and discredits...
...perhaps that is Kotlikoff's crucial point and one that our presidential candidates should bear in mind. If our health-care woes are reaching critical mass, perhaps drastic measures are the only way to effect real change...
...Keller's scenario, the Deccan eruptions began perhaps half a million years before the mass extinction. "This leads to greenhouse warming that puts a major stress on the environment," she says. Then came the asteroid impact, which pushed things further toward catastrophe. Finally, 300,000 years later, the eruptions reached their climax, sealing the dinosaurs' fate. "We've shown convincingly," she says, "the mass extinction came about 300,000 years after the asteroid impact...
Glendon received her B.A., J.D., and master of comparative law degrees from the University of Chicago. She lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass. with her husband and three daughters...
...crimes trials to be heard by the Hague Tribunal, but it is also unique for other reasons: Unlike the rest of the politicians and military commanders indicted by the Tribunal, Seselj is not accused of physically hurting anybody, or of being part of a chain of command that ordered mass murder and other abuses. Instead, the politician whose trial began Wednesday is accuse of inciting war crimes by churning out inflammatory speeches and disseminating "poisonous ideas...