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...surveys a desk top unsullied by a single sheet of paper. The 55-year-old will likely soon find himself thinking wistfully back to a time when his desk was bare. There can't be many other jobs in the world that present a new leader with such a complex array of challenges as trying to govern the 17,500 islands strung along the equator that make up the world's fourth most populous country. Still, in his first interview since being sworn in as the country's sixth chief executive on October 20, the former general appeared relaxed...
...author presents the conflict in Darfur as a “genocide” committed by a “gang of Arab militants” against Darfur’s “black African” population. The reality is far more complex. The African Union itself (which would be among the first groups to condemn a genocide committed against fellow Africans) states in a July 8th resolution that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim...
Hamer is careful to point out that the gene he found is by no means the only one that affects spirituality. Even minor human traits can be governed by the interplay of many genes; something as complex as belief in God could involve hundreds or even thousands. "If someone comes to you and says, 'We've found the gene for X,'" says John Burn, medical director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University of Newcastle in England, "you can stop them before they get to the end of the sentence...
...author presents the conflict in Darfur as a “genocide” committed by a “gang of Arab militants” against Darfur’s “black African” population. The reality is far more complex. The African Union itself (which would be among the first groups to condemn a genocide committed against fellow Africans) states in a July 8th resolution that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim...
...perverted into a chilling precept of horror. Shimizu makes the most of this, generating tension and genuine terror with a slow, sweeping camera that seems to glide across the traditional Japanese interiors with neither rhyme nor reason; he uses frequent long takes with symbolic tableaux in the foreground and complex interactions occurring in the background. Shimizu takes this potent philosophical notion and maximizes it’s potential for a startling filmic effect; at least, for the first 30 minutes...