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...Holocaust involved mass executions, as well as concentration camps. Yet despite the mountain of literature, films and photographs documenting the Holocaust, Desbois has filled in a crucial missing piece of history by interviewing hundreds of people who witnessed the Ukrainian killings firsthand. "The testimony is just unbelievable," says Paul Shapiro, director of research for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, which is honoring Desbois at a dinner in the capital in April. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish-rights organization in Los Angeles, is awarding Desbois a Medal of Valor in May. The center's international director, Shimon Samuels...
...witnesses provide a window into how a well-organized genocide could occur in these Ukrainian communities with no one choosing, or able, to stop it. That provokes profound questions about culpability and powerlessness, and the possibility of future genocides, which resonate far beyond 1940s Europe, say researchers like Shapiro. Explaining why it has taken so long to uncover such testimony, Shapiro says: "Frankly, no one ever went there before...
...Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...what you have here is an employer - Major League Baseball - conducting an internal investigation that could leave certain employees subject to a criminal probe. And you thought your boss stunk. "To me, the most interesting question is - are there prosecutors chomping at the bit here?" asks Michael Shapiro, a criminal defense attorney. "Has Mitchell presented them cases on a silver platter?" At his press conference, Mitchell stressed that prosecutors have more important concerns than punishing individual past steroid users, and that there is no evidence that prosecutors would jump on this. But if any of the players are fingered...
...Another reason why defamation suits aren't too likely, besides their high burden of proof, is that the players would have to testify under oath. "That's exactly what they've been trying to avoid up until this point," says Shapiro. In other words, if players are going to sue, they'd better be certain they're telling the truth about their steroid use, or else they could be subjecting themselves to the same kinds of much more serious perjury charges facing Barry Bonds. "What your going to see is a huge public relations war," says Shapiro. "High-profile agents...