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Bonnie Branch Middle students examine Munich Massacre for winning History Day project
Bonnie Branch Middle School eighth-graders Nick Kundrat and Matt Yagel point to a bar graph made for their school project examining security at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, which ended with 11 athletes killed.
The graph illustrates...Tags: Terrorism, Summer Olympics, Colleges and Universities, Munich (Germany), University of Maryland, College Park
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End the butchery
How much longer can the world stand by while Syrian dictator Bashar Assad murders his own people by the thousands and the streets of Syria's cities and towns run red with the blood of his victims? If there were any remaining doubt as to whether Mr. Assad...
Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Fox News Channel (tv network), Kofi Annan, Bashar Assad, Abusive Behavior
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Lithuania tries to whitewash its role in the Holocaust
In response to Ellen Cassedy's "We are here" (April 18), I offer a second opinion. Can there be hope for a country that claimed the highest percentage of Jewish deaths in all of Europe? More than 95 percent ofLithuania'sJews were annihilated — most...Tags: Hate Crimes, Judaism, Genocide, Vilnius (Lithuania), The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Afghan massacre: What blame rests on society?
As a psychologist who has spent more than a year in the Middle East, I have been following with great interest the commentary following the massacre in Afghanistan by the U.S. soldier last Saturday ("Killings of 16 appall Afghans," March 12). Almost...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Afghanistan
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Finding shards of light 'In Darkness'
Agnieszka Holland's Holocaust movies, like "Angry Harvest" and "Europa Europa," are a world away from concentration camp tear-jerkers like Robert Benigni's Oscar-winning smash "Life Is Beautiful."
Holland's films are uninhibited and sexual, gutsy and...Tags: Movies, Judaism, Life Is Beautiful (movie), Fells Point, Warsaw (Poland)
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Wilde Lake Middle students raise funds for Darfur refugees
Someday, members of this year's seventh-grade class at Wilde Lake Middle School might be at the forefront of efforts to eradicate such social ills as genocide, animal cruelty, homelessness and deforestation. The students are learning about social...Tags: Natural Resources, Forests, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Chad, United Nations
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'We are here' -- in memory and in hope
The song composed in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, Lithuania's capital, is defiant. "Mir zaynen do!" it thunders. "We are here!" For all its bold determination, this song, known as the Partisan Hymn, always used to strike me as unspeakably sad. So few of...
Tags: Judaism, Music, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Vilnius (Lithuania), The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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Virgina Tech slayings recall 2007 tragedy
The fatal shootings at Virginia Tech today brought back memories of the massacre that left 33 people dead in 2007. A number of books have been written about that event; here are some suggestions:
"No Right to Remain Silent," by Lucinda Roy, a former...Tags: Seung-Hui Cho, Virginia Tech
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Md. students, parents endure nervous day during Virginia Tech lockdown
Ellie Kavanagh had never been so happy to sleep through her alarm.
The Virginia Tech junior had planned to go for a morning workout at the campus gym on Thursday. But instead, she was in her apartment a few miles away when her computer screen went...Tags: Shootings, Colleges and Universities, Annapolis, Seung-Hui Cho, Juvenile Delinquency
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Manning leaks helped end war, saved lives
Why is it that people who violate the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice by torturing prisoners do not get punished ("Ex-CIA officer charged over leaks to journalists," Jan. 24), but people who report such crimes to the press get the book thrown at...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Bradley Manning, Iraq, War Crimes
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Lessons learned in Iraq, Rwanda
Letter writer Paul R. Schlitz Jr. can't seem to grasp the fact that an acknowledgment of Iraq's potential to harbor weapons of mass destruction doesn't necessarily indicate current agreement with the decision to invade, nor does it require someone to...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Iraq War (2003-2011), George H.W. Bush, Iraq, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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If Iran gets the bomb, another Holocaust is on the way
An article in The Sun says that Iran has announced that it has produced a nuclear fuel rod and has test-fired a missile ("Iran says it has produced its first nuclear fuel rod," Jan. 2). Since the world hasn't yet seen fit to stop these maniacs, we might...Tags: Nuclear Power, Iran
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