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DIED. HARTLEY SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi war-crime trials; in Cowbeech, England. Known as Lord Shawcross after his 1959 appointment to the House of Lords, he served as Britain's Attorney General from 1945 to 1951, prosecuting traitors like William Joyce, a.k.a. Lord Haw-Haw, who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany. Of his work before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, he said, "There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience...
...DIED. LORD SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes...
...easy--even popular in some circles--to attack Annan's compassion. The argument is that his warm heart, while praiseworthy on an individual level, would be a disastrous global paradigm. As Shawcross argues in Deliver Us from Evil, his study of U.N. peacekeeping, pure implementation of the Kofi Doctrine would lead to a world with never-ending humanitarian wars. It is an awful paradox that compassion should come at so steep a price. This is why Annan doesn't insist on universal application of his doctrine. What he believes is that the world needs to create a climate in which...
...WILLIAM SHAWCROSS, who wrote this week's cover story, first encountered George Soros in Sarajevo four years ago, as the philanthropic billionaire was being shepherded out of the line of sniper fire. Soros was on a mission to give $50 million to rebuild war-torn Bosnia, and Shawcross was researching U.N. peacekeeping for an upcoming book. Shawcross was immediately intrigued by the international money manager. "A very cool character, but quite passionate about Sarajevo," he recalls. "He called it the world's largest concentration camp...
...wanted in Asia for driving down currency values, the activist financier George Soros isn't showing any signs of giving up yet. He's now targeting American social problems with a lot of initiatives likely to draw retaliation on several fronts. TIME's William Shawcross reports in this week's cover story that Soros is giving $15 million over five years to groups that oppose America's "war on drugs"; $5 million in grants to help cut the incarceration rate; $50 million to help fellow immigrants get citizenship; $20 million to improve care for the dying and $25 million...