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...rammed through resolutions containing all these proposals in the House and Senate Budget Committees. The resolutions are likely to be approved by floor votes in both chambers this week. Moreover, contrary to the conventional wisdom of decades, which held that government spending could never be reined in enough to wipe out deficits because too many citizens would be outraged by losing federal help, many of the G.O.P. ideas stand an excellent chance of actually taking effect...
What is at the heart of this cruelty? The desire to wipe out a people. A calculated strategy to exterminate human beings because of their religious beliefs and supposed racial inferiority. And the world's silence in the face of this strategy. But how does the Holocaust fit into history? Is it a unique event like none that came before it and like none that will come after? Or is it an appalling tragedy whose lessons are not meant merely to be pontificated on but applied? In short, can it be used as an historical analogue...
...government and southern rebels negotiated a truce with the help of former President Jimmy Carter. The two sides, which have been fighting a 12-year war in which more than 1 million people have died, agreed to a two-month cease-fire so that health workers could try to wipe out the parasitic Guinea worm, which causes debilitating disease...
...aside from "the occasional moped wipe-out," Gallisa says the Bermuda trips are fairly uneventful...
...decayed corpse is the diagonal throat slash from right ear through to the spinal column-the ghoulish trademarks that every Algerian recognizes as the signature of the guerrillas who sprang from the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). "The fundamentalists are vermin," declares a government official. "We must wipe them out, even if we have to kill millions of people...