all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Diplomats in the [UK’s] Foreign Office are working frantically in private on what they refer to as the “exit ticket” from Iraq. In contrast to the official line that British forces will remain until...
Many have assumed that foreign fighters form the bulk of these terrorists, and some that that they include a large Saudi presence. For example, an Israeli report claims that 61% of the foreign fighters...
In an hourlong conversation I had with four Blackwater men, they characterized their work in New Orleans as “securing neighborhoods” and “confronting criminals.” They all carried automatic assault weapons and had guns strapped to...
Back in the Middle Ages, after the Roman Church had largely abolished the use of concubines and slaves among well-off Christians, the most popular method for European women to control their fertility and for...
Two British nationals were detained by Iraqi authorities. It emerged later that they were British soldiers. Dressed in plain clothes … the two men had been driving in an unmarked car when they arrived...
President Bush doesn’t often find common cause with Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria and Venezuela. But this month the Bush administration joined with those countries and others to eviscerate a forthright U.N. statement that nations...
Investigators appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review each of the 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for “evidence of homosexuality” … the American archbishop who is supervising the seminary...
University of Utah biologists studied the genetics of whale lice small crustaceans that are parasites on endangered right whales and showed the giant whales split into three species 5 million to 6 million years...
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals … senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of...