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THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE, 1914 At Christmas, 1914, there occurred several informal truces at various points along the trench-lines of Northern France and Belgium. It may well be that there were other places where truces took place, but our precise knowledge of events is limited by the amount of direct, eyewitness testimony which has so far been discovered. Nevertheless, there are enough trustworthy reports (and even a few photographs) to convince us that something extraordinary happened that first Christmas of the war, and that it was not entirely an isolated happening. The image of opposing soldiers, shaking hands with each other ...

Surrounded by the three heaviest hitters on his National Security team, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and Alta-Maria-Constanza Dong-Quai-Nyong-Shabazz, President-elect George W. Bush sought to calm the growing fears among our NATO allies of the threat of Depleted Uranium poisoning. "I wish to take this opportunity to announce that the United States will no longer use so-called depleted uranium in any weapon in its vast democratic arsenal." Although the US government has repeatedly denied any causal realtionship between the use of DU weaponry and alleged increase in cases of lukemia, brain cancer and two-headedness among very young children, the Bush administration ...

When James Nance Garner remarked of the Office of Vice President: "It's not worth a bucket of warm spit", he could hardly have imagined how overwhelmingly popular warm spit would become with succeeding generations of Americans. He meant it as an insult, after all. But what better way to characterize the carefully manufactured, bakelite political culture that now dominates the Nation? Every conceivable information source has glowingly described Senator Joseph Lieberman's moral stature--the "Conscience of the Senate" one of the most often used tributes. The punditocracy, shifting from one buttock to the other in order to show that they are ...