Do you find a debate about Nazism at Auschwitz? Do you find a debate about the North and the South at Gettysburg?

Both Knigge and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' are two examples that show how fierce the debate was about individual books within the congregation. It certainly was not a bunch of yes-men churning out prohibitions en masse.

I've flown to Guatemala and Belize in the south; Point Barrow, Alaska, in the north; and out to Cape Cod, ... It just goes to show you don't need a Lear Jet to travel around a lot.

The Shiites in the south and the Kurds in the north would need to join together, but the Kurds are more interested in independence. Iran, Syria and Turkey are unlikely to support an independent Kurd state because of their significant Kurdish populations, and others in Iraq will not support overthrowing Saddam if they think it will result in a breakup of the country.

Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

Dr. Josef Mengele, who conducted experiments on Jews and Gypsies at Auschwitz (he had two doctorates, by the way) would have fit in quite nicely at Columbia, ... To paraphrase Theodor Adorno, the German Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, 'Auschwitz begins wherever somebody looks at a Columbia lab and thinks: they're only animals.'