Attila (died 453) was a chieftain who brought the Huns to their greatest strength and who posed a grave threat to the Roman Empire.The Huns first appear in European records at the end of the 4th centu...
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As a central villain in the famous book "Barbarians At the Gate," Henry Kravis has become one of the world's richest mavens of private equity — the Wall Street sector that buys up companies, ...
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Boo! It's a Halloween party. And who said that kids get to have all the fun? OK, the kids can come, too. Halloween seems to be an occasion when folks, old and young, let their inhibitions dow...
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"I think I'm American in all sorts of essential ways," said the 52-year-old war journalist David Rieff the other day, "but I never understood this American wish to look on the bright side. I just d...
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