Word: slaughtered
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...prey to a scheme of the United States." Publishers of middle school textbooks, who in the past few years finally began calling the 1937 murder of up to 300,000 civilians in Nanjing a "massacre," recently succumbed to right-wing pressure and changed most editions back to calling the slaughter an "incident." Aging politicians often insist that civilians in occupied nations were actually grateful for Japan's presence, and that women dragooned into sexual servitude for imperial soldiers were willing prostitutes?assertions that make even a loonocracy like North Korea sound thoughtful when its leaders call Japan a nation...
DIED. ENOS SLAUGHTER, 86, Hall of Fame outfielder who spent his 19-year Major League Baseball career with four teams, most illustriously the St. Louis Cardinals, whom he helped win the 1946 World Series; in Durham...
...Still, he pursued his calling, traveling to China in 1938 to cover the Sino-Japanese war, back to Spain as the Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic...
...clerics across the border in Quetta, Pakistan, last week condemned the U.S. and called for retribution. The raid?a necessary one by U.S. calculations?has been added by Afghans to the other, larger accidents during the American campaign: the bombing of a wedding party in December in Paktia, the slaughter of 21 friendly Afghan troops in Uruzgan in January, and the killing of three Afghan soldiers near Gardez the day after the Band Taimore prisoners were freed. Even pro-U.S. figures are worried about public reaction to the accidents. "If America continues to make mistakes, the people will resist...
...although Slaughter is leaving the Law School, it has plans to add 15 new faculty members over the next decade and has already hired two tenured faculty for next year...