Mar 18th, 2010 · Scholar Philip Jenkins argues that scriptures in the Quran are less brutal than those in the Bible. In his new book, Jesus Wars, Jenkins points out that violence in the Quran is mostly defensive, but in the Bible, it is often a method of genocide.
Mar 12th, 2010 · Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan's Valley of Death is the story of the brutal conflict — a fight led by the French to re-establish colonial rule in Vietnam — that led to the Vietnam War. The battle of Dien Bien Phu lasted months, but the fallout lasted decades.
Mar 6th, 2010 · Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather is the son of a boxer, and a student of what he himself calls his "brutal sport." Mayweather is 33, and says he's determined to get out of the fight game without suffering brain damage. He says he can do this because he's not surrounded by a retinue of investors, flunkies and hangers-on who want him to keep him in the ring to make them rich.
Mar 4th, 2010 · Chile's military began delivering convoys filled with plastic bags of oil, flour and canned beans to areas ravaged by the massive earthquake and tsunami. But some residents have mixed feelings about the first significant presence of soldiers in the streets since the brutal Pinochet regime in the 1970s and '80s.
Jan 5th, 2010 · El Monte, Calif., mourned the loss of a role model and community leader at a vigil on Monday. The city has been hit hard by the brutal slaying of Bobby Salcedo, who was abducted and killed along with five other men while vacationing in Mexico last week.
Dec 31st, 2009 · Across the country, local governments are wrapping up a brutal year, with slipping tax revenues and sharp declines in state aid. The shortfalls come at a time when towns and cities are struggling to provide more services, from food kitchens to health care. In northern New York, local leaders in Elizabethtown may be forced to close the county-run nursing home.
Dec 28th, 2009 · Iranian security forces rounded up at least seven prominent activists. The bloodshed, some of the heaviest in months, drew an especially harsh condemnation from one opposition leader, who compared the government to the brutal regime that was ousted by the Islamic Revolution three decades ago.
Dec 21st, 2009 · In early 2007, U.S. Navy sailor Jennifer Valdivia killed herself while she was under investigation for her role in brutal hazing at a base in Bahrain. Interviews and newly obtained documents suggest that before she was an alleged victimizer, Valdivia, too, was subjected to sexually demeaning abuse.