Bridging Civilizations to Make Sense of Slaughter
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Alfred Preisser, a founder of the Classical Theater of Harlem, has clumsily conflated the Euripides play âTrojan Womenâ with eyewitness accounts from civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Investigations of prehistoric burial sites in Europe show that the region's population may have practiced ritual human sacrifice, according to a new study.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
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Not worth a tin full of beans Analysis A significant and noticeable part of the US and European academy of terrorism studies is like a shark. If it stops swimming forward, it dies. This has two consequences: a drive to publish or perish which, in turn, motivates it to creep onto past battlefields, assessing which bodies can be ignored for the sake of renewing mythologies; or new terror analyses that purport to show Byzantine networks and capabilities.â¦
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Across nations and religions there has been a search for explanations of why the tsunami killed some and not others.
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âTo Die in Jerusalem,â a film about the families of a Palestinian suicide bomber, will appear on HBO and at the Paley Center for Mediaâs documentary festival.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Comment is free: David Ignatius: Benazir Bhutto's killing demonstrates the difficulty in understanding Pakistan
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VENICE, Dec 10 (IPS) - It&#39s about the oldest dispute around, which is  good enough reason to hear more on it from those who can  influence a possible resolution. So when Abdelwahab Derbal, head  of the mission in Brussels of the League of Arab States speaks of  his anger over the Palestine issue, these may be words to listen  to, whichever side of the divide (if any) you are on.
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Building a housing complex or a road in the Holy Land can often have grave implications.
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Science & environment: Campaigners demand action to curb shipment of millions of animals around the world for slaughter
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The forensic science of processing and identifying the dead
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Religious leaders from around Southeast Asia and Australia are urging greater efforts to promote tolerance and understanding. They met in Indonesia to build inter-religious bridges to reduce the threat posed by extremists.
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Monitor correspondents and experts suggest what to watch for in eight international conflicts.
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A small group of thinking men and women convened at Rutgers University last month to consider how order theory - a branch of abstract mathematics that deals with hierarchical relationships - could be applied to the war on terror.