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...almost unremittingly dark. The mayor's scythe sweeps through the book as Mak tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors (the war to end all wars!), and the heartbreaking irony of victims unaware (one letter from a Jewish transport...
...Staff Writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff Writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...Samuel P. Jacobs contributed reporting to this story. —Staff Writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu...
...from the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq in one of the most Christian countries in the Middle East - almost one third of Lebanon's population is Christian, and the country's presidency is reserved for them. "Iraqi Christians feel comfortable in a country where Christians have power," says Mark Samuel, the president of a Lebanese Assyrian political party. At the town's Assyrian Church of St. George, Iraqi refugees now make up almost one-third of the congregation. "It was bad in Iraq under the old regime," says James Isho, whose family fled Baghdad two years ago after the church...
...Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...