The Lives They Kept: Insurers and a Debt of History
Tuesday, 30 April 2002
By Kristen Kidd New York Life Insurance Company sold policies to thousands of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the 20 years leading up to the Genocide. In 1917 the company paid off a portion of those policies to surviving heirs, but thousands of others were not. Instead they were sealed in a company vault for the
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Man of the Year: The Lone Crusader; Peter Balakian; A Poet’s Political Coming of Age
Thursday, 31 December 1998
By Mark Arax It was the spring of 1997 and Peter Balakian, the author of four collections of poetry, was about to launch his first big book. He felt the unease that any author feels knowing that his baby, now in the hands of marketers and reviewers, was no longer his own. That the book,
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