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| | | | | The UK's National Memorial Arboretum is full of surprises, and gives the visitor lots to think about. It hosts around 400 memorials to individual units of the armed forces, to specific incidents and to sundry other causes and organisations. | |
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| | | | | Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory, a classic study of British soldiers' writings about trench warfare on the Western Front during the First World War, is now 50 years old. Dwight Garner, a book critic at The New York Times, offers an appreciation of Fussell's award-winning book: "The Great War and Modern Memory... | |
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| | | | | Maurice Sion was a very dear friend and a distinguished colleague in the mathematics department at the University of British Columbia. He died peacefully in his sleep on April 20, 2018. Maurice retired from UBC in 1989, after a career in which he contributed much to Mathematics and to our university. A former Department Head,... | |
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| | | Top US diplomat Antony Blinken was set to meet Israeli leaders Tuesday as part of efforts to contain the war in Gaza, a day after strikes in Syria and Lebanon killed high-profile members of Hamas and its ally Hezbollah.The visit comes as the Israeli military said its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was shifting into a new phase involving more targeted operations in the territory's centre and south. | ||