Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ongoing projects that involve City Year participants include programs in school that educate students on AIDS, domestic violence, and conflict resolution, tutor and mentor students and renovate dilapidated parks and buildings...
Although this is an important issue, it seems a tragedy to block funding for the U.N. on this basis. The consequences of Congress' decision--increased conflict, disease and death--can be seen in any newspaper...
...should never underestimate the importance of ideals and continue to emphasize their implementation in the real world. It is in this realm that the U.N. and its member states have failed. Since the end of the Cold War conflict and famine have persisted--and in many cases even increased...
...forget that recently we have witnessed famine in Somalia, North Korea and Sudan. We have seen the bloody ethnic conflict that occurred during the break-up of Yugoslavia and the continuing violence in the Middle East. And we have stood by and done nothing in the face of a genocide in Rwanda...
...wonder Matt screams towards the end of the play, "I can't make sense of these things anymore!" Caught in a constant mess of conflict and hypocrisy, nobody in this play ever really makes any understandable sense to each other or even to the audience. The folks at the A.R.T. wisely choose to leave the enigmas and misunderstandings in the play wide open to interpretation, presenting the characters as they are--faulty, hypocritical and always amusing. In the end, what makes the most sense about The Marriage of Bette and Boo, what makes the play so intensely human and what...