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About his father, Frank Gibney My father was a journalist, but before he was a journalist, he was a Navy interrogator in World War II in the pacific theater. He interrogated Japanese prisoners on Okinawa, which was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. He was horrified at the pictures coming out of Abu Ghraib, and even more so when he began to learn that this may have represented the kind of policy,that we were torturing people by choice, not by accident, and by direction, not by occasional rage. My father believed, in World...
...Khan, it was just another example of how extremism has grown in Pakistan since Musharraf came to power via military coup in 1999. "Last year was the bloodiest year ever in Pakistan," he said. Even the tribal areas, which Bannu is near, are "threatening to stand up against the military," Khan said, as "not religious, but political Talibanization" spreads across the country. Speaking over the constant clicking of cameras, Khan chastised the U.S. and Britain for only paying lip service to democracy in Pakistan and painted a picture of a country on the brink of implosion, caught in a vicious...
...plays at the Loeb Experimental Theatre through December 15. Although the production lacks finesse, the cast and crew do creative justice to the play’s reputation as what is reputed to be Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy—and what is undoubtedly his bloodiest work...
...from safe havens found in neighboring countries or elsewhere in Iraq. Life in some parts of the city has taken on an air of normalcy, with shops and restaurants open at night. But even if the current level of calm holds, Baghdad remains the center of one of the bloodiest realms on Earth on any given...
...20th century was a time of unprecedented progress, Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson said yesterday. Life expectancy soared, quality of life improved, and democracy spread. But why was the twentieth century also the bloodiest? According to Ferguson, who spoke to a crowd of 20 students at Hilles as part of the “Coffee with a View” series yesterday afternoon, the answer lies partly in that very progress. In a talk entitled, “The War of the World,” Ferguson argued that the major ingredients for world war continue to loom today...