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Antoine’s family sent out an e-mail that said they would not be taking phone calls, and the cause of Antoine’s death remains undisclosed...
...Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this to be so. The villain: Hitler still seems the embodiment of melodramatic evil, a spellbinder sent from hell or central casting. The perpetrators: a civilized Western nation conceived the outrage of genocide and executed the plan with technological precision; if the Germans could do it, anyone could. The victims: the Jews, eternal outsiders, were traditionally treated by Christians with an uneasy mixture of envy and enmity. Here was the seed of ordinary anti-Semitism brought to rancid fruition...
...global cooling and the deadly winter of 1886-87 that wiped out the short-lived open-range cattle bonanza of Montana Territory. In 2000, Ken Wohletz, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, postulated that an even bigger Krakatoa eruption in 6th century A.D. may have sent a tall plume of vaporized seawater into the atmosphere, causing the formation of stratospheric ice clouds with superfine hydrovolcanic ash, which literally cast a pall over much of the world at the beginning of what became known as the Dark Ages...
...financial crisis hit Harvard hard this fall, decimating its endowment and prompting cutbacks across the University. In November, University President Drew G. Faust sent a dire but vague warning about the impact of the financial crisis, and details began to materialize soon thereafter. December began with the announcement that Harvard's endowment had dropped an unprecedented 22 percent—or $8 billion—and likely lost more when accounting for updated asset prices. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences halted most staff hiring in late November and then froze Faculty wages and put 70 percent of ongoing tenure...
...Eisenhower did just that in 1957 when segregationists tried to prevent black students from enrolling and attending public school in Little Rock, Ark. John F. Kennedy also used the act in 1962 and 1963 to send troops to enforce desegregation in Mississippi and Alabama. Similarly, George H.W. Bush sent troops to quell the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Assistant Secretary of Defense McHale notes that the troops being trained for disaster response under the new program would not even be the ones called upon to help quell domestic disturbance in the event of a President invoking the Insurrection...