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Divide and conquer was the motto of the Harvard sailing team this weekend, as members of the squad competed in regattas across New England and came up with good results across the board...
...Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons,” a 2006 Hamas spokesman said. In a speech on April 11, a Hamas cleric who is a minister of the Palestinian parliament preached that Islam would soon conquer Rome, “the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and which has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam.” Interlacing its verbal volleys against the West...
Arranged chronologically, "Babylon" unpacks some of the world's most iconic artifacts to explain the shifting motives of the city's rulers. By the early 18th century B.C., Hammurabi, the sixth King of Babylon, had used an aggressive military policy to conquer rival city-states and to establish Babylon as Mesopotamia's political heart. But Hammurabi was concerned about more than expansion, as demonstrated by the magnificent Code of Hammurabi stela, a 7-ft.-high (2 m) column of basalt upon which he inscribed 282 codified laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian script that predates even hieroglyphics. Although...
...Keene's. His forthcoming memoir, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, tells the unlikely story of how a boy born in Brooklyn in 1922 grew increasingly drawn to a country that many in his generation would know only as an enemy to fear and conquer. Lovingly illustrated by the artist Akira Yamaguchi, the book limns a life inseparably linked to its dominant passion. "I sometimes think," Keene writes, "that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left...
...Second, regional identities could hasten the divide-and-conquer approach. Under this scenario, each candidate plays - for reasons of time, money and simplicity - to his geographical strength. That has happened in the past in big, multi-candidate, multi-state primaries. Given the nature of the field - one candidate from New York, another from the Southwest; a third from the heartland and a fourth who's got both cultural links to the intermountain West and a record in New England - it could well happen again...