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...German psychiatrists branded those citizens who did not meet the Nazi criteria for normality as “feebleminded” and subsequently had them “euthanized” in German psychiatric hospitals. The Soviet government operated in a similar fashion, labeling those who chafed under the yoke of communist dictatorship as insane and forcing them to take mind-altering drugs...
...unrelenting sectarian violence in daily Iraqi life soon turned the trial into a televised sideshow. For those who bothered to watch anymore, the sight of Saddam in court sometimes had the exact opposite effect than officials expected - it evoked nostalgia for a time when, under the tyrant's yoke, Shi'ites and Sunnis were not at each other's throat. Although viewership spiked today, interest in the proceedings will quickly subside again...
Meanwhile, Hizballah, which was created in 1982 to resist Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon, has internal political incentives to act against Israel. In the new Lebanon, genuine independence is trying to take root after popular unrest forced the Syrians to lift their yoke on the country last spring. As a result, whether Hizballah should be allowed to remain armed six years after the Israelis left Lebanon is the most divisive political issue in the country today. Critics argue that only government forces should bear arms. Hizballah counters that given the weakness of the Lebanese Army, a disciplined guerrilla force...
...composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...
...Blotky took her place under the yoke, knowing that her shoulders would have to carry the load...