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...captured Adolf Eichmann--the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution"--from a street outside Buenos Aires; of complications from an infection; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, seńor" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. The agents later smuggled him to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In a book he wrote about the capture, he recalled Eichmann's reaction when Malkin told...
...report, entitled “The (Un) Changing Face of the Ivy League,” analyzes trends in diversity among staff at all eight Ivy League universities 1993 to 2003, using statistics from the U.S. Department of Education...
...while Bode resumes his reading, and Robbie un-pauses the video game, the two roommates both have wrestling in the back of their minds. They know what they need to do this weekend. They are prepared to reward themselves for a season’s worth of hard work. But more than anything else, Bode Ogunwole and Robbie Preston are determined...
...dealing with the delicate issue of Taiwan, most governments follow the American model. They vow at regular intervals that they recognize only One China?the People's Republic?but then send diplomatic personnel to Taipei (under commercial cover), trade with the Un-China, and maintain discreet official contact. The much heavier burden of maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait?making sure China doesn't try to take Taiwan by force, or Taipei doesn't provoke Beijing into trying?is shouldered by Washington alone...
...compares the vilification of Jews with settlers’ characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly all of the things settlers alleged it did. The insurgents did not spare the lives of women and children. And while...