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...from a refugee agency. Here it was, right out of the Nazi files. The Gestapo's chief Jew catcher, Adolf Eichmann, said that 4,000,000 died in concentration camps and 2,000,000 were killed by extermination squads. Fat, brutal Hans Frank counted 3,500,000 Jews in western Poland in 1941, "perhaps...
...Chief of Army Staff and is planning to hold parliamentary elections early next year. He will no longer hold both the positions of Army Chief and President, and some semblance of popular governance will be restored to Pakistan. These were two key demands that Pakistan’s Western allies had made...
...unsustainability of today’s trends cannot be emphasized enough. Ecologically, the critique has always been obvious: The consumption patterns familiar to many Western citizens today simply cannot be universally adopted. Instead, according to one environmentalist, if climate cataclysms are to be averted, we will have to reduce per capita carbon emissions to around 0.4-0.5 tons annually (the average American emits six tons). This is almost surely impossible barring a total transformation of current structures of consumption and production. As another, no less ominous example, consider the fact that mainstream economics has no answers for the displaced rural...
...invasion in the wake of Sept. 11 failed to bring peace to the blood-stained country, serving only to reinstall some of the same vicious mujahideen that tore Afghanistan apart during the 1990s. But though the intricacies of the country have largely been overlooked by the Western world, one journalist, Kathy Gannon, devoted 18 years of her life to chronicling the tragedy, hope, and destruction that is the story of Afghanistan. Her relentless pursuit of the truth makes her 2005 tome, “I is for Infidel,” nearly impossible to put down. Gannon journeys through...
...sale will give the University access to the five-acre plot on which the apartments currently reside for future development. Charlesview—a low-cost apartment complex located next to Harvard Business School—will relocate to a 6.9-acre plot further down Western Avenue...