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…s and then proceeded to seize grain harvested in the countryside to feed the urban population. The result, according to long-standing estimates, was the death of some 30 mil- lion people in the provinces. Historian Frank Dikotter, who studied the archives in some of the most seri...

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… doing these interrogations, because the logic, which | think Mark had mentioned, is, you know, this circular logic. So long as there are trained psychologists from the SERE program who are on site at these interrogations who are saying that these detainees can withstand this tr...

…s a function of everything player 1 has done in the past. One relatively simple strategy for player 2 is to continue so long as player 1 has cooperated. If both players play according to this pair of strategies, each time the temptation is low, player 1 cooperates and gets a, pla...

… There was a second, critically important part to what I was proposing: the construction of a physical security fence along the new “disengagement line” with the West Bank. It was the suggestion rejected under Rabin, accepted under Peres amid the Hamas bombings in the 1996 elect...

…e speed dial, and spoke rapidly in Russian (which I do not understand.) He cupped his hand over the phone and asked how long I would be in Moscow. After I told him that I was leaving on Friday, he spoke again in to the person on the other end. “You will have an appointment on Th...

…My hair is in rollers. Statuesque Julia Koch walks over from her Park Avenue apartment carrying her white Valentino and long diamond earrings. Her real-life financial titan husband David is unaware where she is this morning. Vanity Fair's keeper of the Best Dressed List, Amy Fin...

…est. Depreciation accounting assumes norms in the loss of capital value with time, and gets the news of actual outcomes long after. National accounts reported positive real net investment, meaning growth in capital value, in 1929, 1930, 1937 and 2008. They give little clue to re...

…ffrey Epstein says that you live with your aunt and uncle and have been !iving there; is that correct? A. Yes. Q. How long have you been living with your aunt and uncle? A. Since my father kicked me out. Q. That was Thanksgiving of this past year? A. Yes, sir. Q, Okay. Didn...

…led to make prima facie showing necessary to establish person- al jurisdiction over Princes and others under New York’s long-arm statute; (8 nai modified due process standard appro- priate for mass torts would not be applied to question of personal juris- diction; (9) allegat...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians continue their investigation of these techniques and experiment with ways to combat them. We also urge more intense coverage of Beijing's efforts to undermine democratic norms in neighboring states...

22 targets—was largely American. It would be another 10 days before she would go to London to arrange for the military campaign to be handled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary...

Baylor loves its students. | love the students. We want them not only to be safe, but to flourish. We worked hard to achieve that goal in a fallen world, where all too often, students will yield to temptations all around them. We could always do more. And the silver lining of the...

| am a TV journalist who covered the Epstein story for several years and wrote a best selling book about him with James Patterson in 2016. Jim Patterson and | are now consulting on a four hour Netflix documentary series tentatively set to air towards the end of the year. The sh...