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...think it's very unfortunate that a small minority of the club was able to come here tonight and create what I see as a schism in the club. I hope that we're able to convince people that we still are the big tent party," said Luke A. Sarsfield '95, the club's treasurer...
Achilles sulked in his tent because Agamemnon denied him his just plunder in war, the beauty Briseis. "Rape has always been endemic with armies," says John A. Lynn, military-history professor at the University of Illinois. "There have been armies in which rape was treated as a disciplinary problem, and armies in which it was institutionalized. In most European armies in the first half of the 17th century, rapes by unpaid soldiers occurred in large numbers in front of officers and were not stopped because they were part of the quid pro quo of what you got for being...
...addictive, opium-based headache remedy and sedative. Pistols and rifles were aggressively marketed for years. The big book luxuriated in excess. Who had ever thought of buying a car by mail? The 1910 catalog offered an automobile called a motor buggy -- manufactured by Sears -- for $395. Never has the tent of U.S. commerce seemed more gloriously, wastefully overstocked than it did when portrayed on the pages of the Sears catalog...
...like him, were banished by Israel to southern Lebanon seven weeks ago. Now, said Rantisi, the group's spokesman, the Israelis were inviting each of them to appeal in person for the right to return. Would they comply? he asked the exiles huddled on a hillside near their meager tent camp. Was there an alternative to their demand for unconditional repatriation? The answer came back crisp and loud...
...ABDUL AZIZ RANTISI, THE SPOKESMAN FOR 415 Palestinians expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would be beautiful if this weren't so tragic...