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...TIME investigation concludes that there was no wanton massacre in Jenin, no deliberate slaughter of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. But the 12 days of fighting took a severe toll on the camp. According to the U.N., 54 Palestinians are confirmed dead. An additional 49 are missing; it is unclear how many of them perished in the fighting and how many either fled or were captured by Israeli troops. In the final count, there may well be fewer dead in Jenin than the 78 killed in Nablus Casbah in a battle that took place at the same time...
...flight to Italy for spring break in order to sit next to a good-looking Italian girl. The two did some under-blanket canoodling that culminated in a handjob in the Milan international airport. When asked how he managed to cajole a non-English speaker into such wanton sluttery, Devine was philosophical. “Women: creatures of mystery. Who can fathom the unfathomable, know what is not to be known?” Questioned later in the trip about how he managed to run through his euros so quickly, Devine blushed incriminatingly...
...People have been wondering why Betsy A. Rodriguez ’05 got booted from Greenough into a Hurlbut psycho single. Well, it might have something to do with propensity for wanton, malicious urination. “It started with what seemed to be trouble hitting the toilet,” remembers traumatized former roommate Joyce K. Bhutto ’05. “Then there was the ‘accidental’ soiling of my shoes and the not-so-accidental peeing all over my desk, textbooks, stuffed animals, laptop and boyfriend.” Hurlbut resident...
...city in 1946. In 1984, Sikhs were identified, torched and killed by sword and bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton nationwide riots in which Muslims were surrounded, terrorized and massacred; rape was thrown in for evil measure in cities like Surat in polarized Gujarat, where it was also videotaped as proof of rapine conquest...
...counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the rules of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. In common parlance, the 159 pages of charges catalog a shattering litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. The indictments accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...