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JPL's Yiddish audio collection to go digital
www.cjnews.com
[Canadian Jewish News (blog)] - As Nancy Sherman wrote in the centre's magazine Pakn Treger, “No one concerned about the fortunes of Yiddish literature can fully grasp its wit and wisdom without hearing it spoken aloud… And those born to the language speak it with an easy vitality
Google News: War and the American Ideal
[The Houghton Star] - Nancy Sherman, a professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and the first distinguished chair in ethics at the US. Naval Academy, said, "the act is a violation of professional military conduct and the fundamental moral requirement in war of
Bodily Desecration Is Disturbing -- But Why?
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[Huffington Post] - Nancy Sherman, a philosophy professor at Georgetown University who specializes in war ethics, ventured a guess as to why people worry about human remains. "I suspect it is simply because the living return to us," she wrote in a CNN.com commentary about
the ugly impulse of revenge
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[CNN International] - By Nancy Sherman, Special to CNN A still from a video purporting to show US Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Editor's note: Nancy Sherman is university professor of philosophy at Georgetown and has served as the first distinguished chair in
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