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...offers any of the princesses as a bride to whomever discovers the destination of their nighttime escapades. Only when a ragged war-veteran refuses the soporific wine the princesses serve their guests, and follows them—shielded by the aforementioned invisibility cloak—does he learn their secret and marry the youngest...
While freshmen, final club initiates, and semi-secret Sorrento Square publications making parodies of H Bomb pursue professional help (see “scrutiny”), Nick did the job himself...
...record: it is true that somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000 people have died since America’s Iraqi campaign began in March 2003. With the exception of Saddam’s murderous sons—and the gang of thugs employed as secret police by the Hussein family—each one of those deaths is a tragedy. It is even possible that many of them could have been averted if the administration’s blinded neo-cons had listened to Colin Powell and done some better pre-war planning...
...before the war and concluded of Saddam’s state: “The terror is self-compounding, with the state’s power reinforced by stories that relatives of the victims pale to tell—of fingernail-extracting, eye-gouging, genital-shocking and bucket-drowning. Secret police rape prisoners’ wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights in Baghdad...
...bomb neared completion, the scientists began to wonder about the morality of unleashing it on humanity. While many had qualms, Oppenheimer actually supported the use of the bomb in order to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. possessed such a capability. He feared that keeping the weapon a secret would guarantee its widespread use in future wars. Oppenheimer, influenced by Niels Bohr, idealistically envisioned openly sharing nuclear information with the Soviets to avert an arms race. He feared atomic war and nuclear terrorism. Oppenheimer used the fame that came out of the Manhattan Project to press these issues...