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Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, paying a first-ever visit to the Indian subcontinent, thrust himself into the middle of a long-running border dispute. India should be restored to its pre-1947 boundaries, he declared, a fiat that would effectively wipe Pakistan and Bangladesh...
...regrowth of Judaism is not unprecedented. The Jews of Persia survived the violence under the regime of Ahasuerus, the Jews of Europe outlasted the Inquisition, and pogroms failed to wipe out the Jews of the Russian Empire. Yet cruel as generations of persecutions were, all stopped short of the Nazi attempt at genocide. There were 8.3 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before the rise of Hitler. Some 450,000 fled the Nazis before World War II. More than 5 million died in the Holocaust. After the war a few hundred thousand of the survivors left immediately for Israel...
...financing scheme puts the city "at total risk, " O'Brien conceded, since a complex medical procedure could easily wipe out the expected $180 to $212 monthly payments...
Hanselman became so emotional at the end of his speech that he had to pause several times to wipe away tears and regain his composure before concluding...
...matter how hard such programs are bashed by conservatives, it doesn't alter the fact that public broadcasting has produced a virtual treasure chest of documentaries dealing with the humanities, politics and the sciences. What Gingrich has forgotten in his unrelenting zeal to wipe out the "liberal media" is that more than a million children in his home state of Georgia actually learn reading and language skills through the programs broadcast by the Children's Television Workshop...