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This issue contains some new sections and departments that reflect our determination to bring you a regular roster of voices and experts on the most vital ideas and subjects under the sun. We are inaugurating a regular history section, which will put today's news in the context of relevant historical events. Our first section was penned by the great modern historian and Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson, who shows how an act of terrorism in 1914 sparked a worldwide fiscal crisis, and wonders whether history could repeat itself...
...Often, these laws follow vicious, sometimes deadly, dog attacks and are driven by a concern for public safety. They are also a response to overwhelming numbers of feral cats and puppy litters and reflect a desire to provide them more humane conditions. In Albuquerque, for example, 30,000 animals are brought to the city's two shelters every year. And that doesn't include animals that pass through private shelters and rescue networks...
...According to military statistics, enemy fighters killed 2,320 of the troops who lost their lives in Iraq through December 2. The rest are attributed primarily to accidents (374) and illness (56). Homicide accounted for 12 non-combat deaths, while 93 were suicides. The statistics reflect changes in enemy strategy. Improvised explosive devices (or IEDs) - booby-traps and bombs, sometimes detonated by cell phones or garage-openers and often planted along routes frequented by coalition troops - have accounted for about a third of all combat deaths in Iraq since the war began. But over the past year, that proportion...
...That sort of piety is, naturally, lost on both sides, for whom the zeroes in a round number like 3,000 are instead perfect little mirrors to reflect their own hot opinions of the war in Iraq. Anti-war activists loudly mourn the senseless loss of life. Passing 3,000 is a prime opportunity to plumb the depths of their own angers about how the war was planned, sold, and executed. Hawks mourn the fact that America has lost its grit. After all, they point out, 3,000 dead is still less than half the annual toll in the worst...
...elected last week as the Hillel steering committee’s fourth consecutive female president, also said that she is looking forward to the experience. “The trip will take us across the country, and will be a great time to reflect on both my personal connection to Israel and its place in a global context,” Charlap wrote in an e-mail. “I look forward to many days and nights of great conversation, and probably not enough sleep.” —Staff writer Daniela Nemerenco can be reached...