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Sixty years ago today, a facility to kill and incinerate human beings — mostly Jews, but others as well — was shut down by the advancing armies of the then-Soviet Union. Here's the BBC's story: World marks Auschwitz liberation The site has become the most powerful symbol of the Holocaust Holocaust survivors and world leaders [...]
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The Bloggies are one popular awards website, says this BBC story. When I went there this aft., I got a “bandwidth limit exceeded” message.”
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Millions of American children are still haunted by the trauma of seeing Janet Jackson's partially exposed breast for a second or two during last year's Super Bowl halftime show, according to a fake FCC study reported in The Onion. An excerpt: “No one who lived through that day is likely to forget the horror,” said noted child [...]
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Complaining about Israel's treatment of Palestinians and likening it to a “Nazi state” is behind the rise in attacks on Jews in the UK, Israeli officials claim. Here's an excerpt from the Guardian (reg. req.): Britain suffered the sharpest rise in anti-semitic attacks of any country last year, and British press coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian [...]
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The NYT's Elizabeth Bumiller analyzes Dubya's news conference from Wednesday morning — which happened after 31 U.S. troops died in a helicopter crash, but didn't voluntarily mention it — in light of an aggressive White House communications strategy to make put the Iraq election in the best possible light. Part of that strategy? Not defining what [...]
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The NYT's Adam Cohen examines the disturbing issue of right-wing authors who are trying to re-write U.S. history, but focuses on The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. An excerpt: f you're going to call a book “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,” readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. [...]
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In this NYT commentary, Paul Starr, co-editor of the The American Prospect, explains where U.S. liberals may have fallen down in promoting the good fights. An excerpt: As Republicans revel in President Bush's inauguration and prepare for his agenda-setting State of the Union address next week, many Democrats would like to consider almost anything but [...]
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Thomas L. Friedman of the NYT has completed his tour of the European colonies and has some free advice for his commander-in-chief. An excerpt: Having spent the last 10 days traveling to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, I have one small suggestion for President Bush. I suggest that when he comes to Europe to mend [...]
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