Emily Lawless--listed on the title pages of her books as "The Hon. Emily Lawless"--wrote poetry, novels, a history of Ireland, and articles on entomology. Although she spent her formative years in Ireland and considered herself an Irish patriot, she...

Justice may have been done last week to Gen. Radislav Krstic at The Hague. There the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia convicted the 53-year-old Bosnian Serb commander of "genocide" and sentenced him to 46 years in prison for his role in Europe's...

IN SADDAM HUSSEIN'S Iraq, the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad was widely feared as a place into which men disappeared, never to be heard from again. In U.S.-occupied Iraq, the same prison, which now contains Iraqi prisoners of war, has become notorious again. Last...