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What was the greatest cause of mass death in the 20th century? It wasn’t natural disasters, disease, famine or war. These tragic body counts cannot compare to the number of humans intentionally slaughtered by their own governments...
What makes the situation all the more tragic is that scholars had warned the Department of Defense (DOD) in January that something like this might happen. The organized looting of ancient artifacts has been rampant in Iraq ever since U.N. sanctions choked off the country's legal streams of revenue following the 1991 Gulf War. "We wanted to make them aware of the importance of Mesopotamia and familiarize them with important sites," says McGuire Gibson, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, who participated in the talks. He says he gave DOD officials a list of critical...
Bush's decision to make war on Iraq may have been visionary and courageous or reckless and tragic or anything in between, but one thing it wasn't was urgently necessary. For Bush, this war was optional. Events did not impose it on him. Few public voices were egging him on. He hadn't made an issue of the need for "regime change" during the presidential campaign or made it a priority in the early months of his Administration. If he had completely ignored Iraq through the 2004 election, the price would have been a few disappointed Administration hawks...
...extent that it’s possible, Yale baseball coach John Stupor has gotten used to the questions. His conversations can jump freely from the tragic to the banal—for example, the sparse crowds that make the shuttle bus trip to historic Yale Field and how to lure them...
When they do show up, even for losses, Yale’s fans have witnessed the uncommon this season. It has been three months since the tragic car accident on I-95 involving nine Yale athletes took the lives of four young men: junior Sean Fenton and sophomores Andrew Dwyer, Kyle Burnat and Nicholas Grass. Burnat and Grass were members of the Yale baseball team, and every game the Bulldogs play, they play for them...