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DIED. HANS BETHE, 98, last of the scientific titans who helped devise the atom bomb for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project; in Ithaca, N.Y. Before heading the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos, the brilliant, unpretentious refugee from Nazi Germany took on an age-old mystery, the question of precisely how the sun and stars keep burning, and solved it in six weeks. Later a vocal proponent of disarmament, he criticized Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan in the 1980s, saying, "We need to try to understand the other fellow and try to come to some agreement...
...Columbia, has alleged that many committee members hold conflicting personal ties to the professors under scrutiny. They say that two members of the committee signed a call for divestment from Israeli companies, one member was the dissertation sponsor of Massad, and they allege another has publicly compared Israel to Nazi Germany...
Animal rights should be respected. But there are limits, and many activists have long surpassed them. When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) launched its campaign comparing animal slaughterhouses to Nazi concentration camps that was the last straw. I have proudly joined the “I Hate PETA” facebook group and never looked back...
...quietly through committee right now, if not for University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Controversy erupted in January after word spread among students and alumni at Hamilton College in New York that Churchill, who had been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words...
...This fits into the pattern of an ideology which has existed in the region called Pan-Turkism,” he said. “It is very similar to Nazi ideology where they wish to eliminate all non-Turkish elements...