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...essentially became an ungovernable mob, and before some semblance of order was restored, an estimated 200,000 Chinese were killed and 20,000 women were brutally raped. Well before Hitler's Holocaust in Europe was planned, let alone set in implacable motion, the events in Nanking essentially established the paradigm for the conduct of World War II. By which one means that both sides subsequently conducted unrestricted warfare against civilian populations, making no distinction between them and military forces. If there is a difference between Nanking and the fire-bombing of cities like London, Dresden, Hamburg and Tokyo...
...Americans had a chance to talk politics with family around the dinner table. "If anybody tells you that they know how to do this caucus in 2007 and 2008, they are crazy," said Bob Haus, a veteran Republican consultant who is running Thompson's Iowa operation. "This is a paradigm in which none of us have ever operated before...
This odyssey is not merely an epic adventure. "The achievement won't be just to go around the world," says the man behind the project, Bertrand Piccard, "but to encourage a complete paradigm shift on how we use energy." Piccard, a 49-year-old Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut, knows a thing or two about high-altitude derring-do. In 1999, he and a partner, Brian Jones, became the first people to circumnavigate the earth in a balloon, but it rankled Piccard that doing so required burning nearly four tons of propane gas. "The balloon flight was a personal dream...
Periodically, a clandestine group of faculty members and administrators gathers in the Lamont Forum Room to adjudicate, review, and discuss. They compose the fabled paradigm of Harvard bureaucracy that is only an idea for some—evoking visions of the infamous Un-American Activities Committee—and is all too much of a reality for others. However obscure or real it seems, the Administrative Board of Harvard College (Ad Board) has been striking fear into the hearts of undergraduates since...
...have plenty of skilled people here," says Moez Bakir, an engineering manager at Eurocast, a Tunisian subsidiary of Arizona-based firm Paradigm Precision Holdings. Eurocast, which is based outside Tunis, builds aircraft parts for GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce, paying its machine operators about $280 a month - a fraction of what equivalent workers would earn in Europe. Over 80% of Tunisia's exports head to Europe, where they will soon be exempt from customs duties, thanks to a free-trade agreement that takes effect in January. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Europeans soak up the sun on Tunisia's beaches...