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Robert E. Lee took a terrible toll of the enemy at Gettysburg. But he did not win, and the war was lost...
...other Sowetans in an orgy of violence that included the fire bombing of Kunene's house, the looting of stores and an attack on a bus carrying American, British and West German tourists that resulted in one injury. At week's end the rioting had subsided, leaving a death toll of one. But those who remembered the Soweto uprising of 1976, which triggered 16 months of nationwide riots, feared that the troubles might signal more turbulence ahead...
...Freshman year was tough, especially mentally,” Herrmann remembers. “Everyone here was a really good player in high school, so to sit on the bench and watch emotionally takes a toll on you. There were times when I wanted to quit...
Despite an onslaught of international media coverage months earlier, last month’s earthquake in Indonesia received an alarming lack of thorough media coverage. The death toll of the 8.7 magnitude earthquake, which hit 125 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is estimated at over 1,000, minimal in comparison to the 270,000 casualties of this past December’s tsunami. While the earthquake did not cause the widespread devastation seen in the previous earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the island of Nias was ravaged...
...targeted mainly members of the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups and other agro-pastoralist groups living in Darfur. The crimes done to humanity are enormous—roughly 1.2 million people have been displaced, women’s rights are being severely violated, and estimates for the death toll are over...