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Zoran Mušič reflects on the horrors he experienced in Dachau after being arrested in Italy on suspicion of antifascist activity: The emaciated figure in his canvas stares skyward with its mouth agape, as if calling out to a God who has turned a blind eye to his suffering.
Army colonel Lee Shaw, her team’s father figure, in the monster realm they call Axis Mundi.
From Salon
The PACs, he said, “have made Bores, in some ways, the most significant figure in the race.”
The crown princess is far from the only public figure in Norway to be caught up in the Epstein files.
From BBC
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's parliament speaker and a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards, has emerged as the highest-profile political figure in the Islamic republic after the killing of its leaders.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
