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...subscriber has made them. Harder to spot is illegal activity in large corporate accounts or small thefts that take place over time. Thus cellular companies warn consumers to watch their bills closely and report any suspicious charges. The last thing this booming industry wants is to have pirates plunder their customers and send them back to wired phones...
Achilles sulked in his tent because Agamemnon denied him his just plunder in war, the beauty Briseis. "Rape has always been endemic with armies," says John A. Lynn, military-history professor at the University of Illinois. "There have been armies in which rape was treated as a disciplinary problem, and armies in which it was institutionalized. In most European armies in the first half of the 17th century, rapes by unpaid soldiers occurred in large numbers in front of officers and were not stopped because they were part of the quid pro quo of what you got for being...
Back in the garden at Kozarac, the fighters with Dragan Zamaklaar shrugged off the plunder and dispossession. "Of course there are robberies -- this is war," explained one. The Serbs may chafe at the isolation brought on by a war of their own making, but they are not about to reverse the evil of "ethnic cleansing." There is little chance that the Muslims of Kozarac or Prijedor or two-thirds of Bosnia will ever go home, and the consequences of their dispossession will haunt Europe for years to come...
Adaptation lay at the cultural heart of Islamic Spain. It was not always benign; like the Venetians bringing back war plunder to St. Mark's, the Arab rulers symbolized their victory over the Christian infidel by taking bells from church spires and converting them into mosque lamps. The most impressive single work of sculpture in the show, the 11th century Pisa griffin, is so hybrid that without a context, scholars seem unable to decide where it comes from -- or even whether it is from al-Andalus at all. It may equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though...
...this sudden eruption of violence in the land of opportunity. Yes, the Rodney King verdict was an affront to decency, but we must hold the laws of this country sacred, say our leaders. It is only the lawless rabble that are rioting, using the protests as an excuse to plunder the city, they say. Upstanding citizens of all races know that we are a nation of justice, they say. Los Angeles is an aberration, easily fixed by sending in the National Guard...