Word: pogroms
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...reading] re-opened my ears to poetry... It's exciting to see poetry proclaimed as a public event," said previous Kennedy fellow Henry Morgenthau, whose grandfather was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey during the pogrom...
...doing, massacres of 3,000 people and such," said one U.N. official. "But it is still bad." Many Serbs still carry memories of the massacres their parents and relatives suffered at the hands of the Croats' pro-Nazi Ustashe government during World War II, and fearful of another pogrom, they left en masse. After inhabiting Krajina for 500 years, the Serbs are now virtually gone from there...
...Clyde going to hell in a hot rod), knives skate across faces and guns blow fishbowl holes in stomachs. When a tough wants to leave his mark on someone, he does it with a mutilating flourish. Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom or get out of the way. Thus does he make the viewer a co-conspirator -- and sometimes, as at Lincoln Center, a victim...
...ironic that Janet Reno should now set her sights on purging television of violence. Isn't this the woman who brought the nation the televised immolation of the Waco cultists? The third-most qualified woman in America did not see fit to pursue an investigation of the Crown Heights pogrom. Perhaps it is because Reno has been so unsuccessful at combating real violence that she must confine herself to taking on the fictitious sort...
Purposely held the Sunday before the 54th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the first major pogrom in Nazi Germany, the demonstration thus inadvertently showcased the intolerance it was meant to decry. Kohl dismissed last week's disrupters as "rabble" and promised not to let Germany's course be influenced by "terror of the streets," of whatever stripe. But the subversion sent precisely the message that authorities were trying to counter: that political extremists are getting out of control in Europe's largest country. (See related story on page...