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What are some examples of the ways people have failed to confront their biases during this campaign...
...proven already, and beyond the shadow of doubt, that America is, in fact, ready for a black president—which, in actuality, is a veiled way of saying that white America is prepared to confront the myth of white supremacy,” he wrote in the letter...
...numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which has given sympathy - and, many suspect, military support - to the rebels? The fighters claim to be protecting ethnic Tutsis from some of the same Hutu militias responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during...
...Auschwitz defied his entire worldview. Tan also interviews a New York artist, Alfredo Jaar, who believes that only images of pain can still affect today’s viewer. In “The Eyes of Gutete Emerita,” Jaar forces viewers of his work to confront images of the genocide in Rwanda directly by placing one million slides on a lightbox. Tan’s most recent projects take the combination of image and identity one step further. In her 2005 work “Corrections,” she amassed 300 video portraits of prison inmates...
...hand rather than engaging in vicious personal attacks. The outcome of this election is likely to have a major impact on both sides of the aisle, so we are especially appreciative of their efforts to focus the debate on an intelligent and respectful exploration of the various conundrums that confront our future policymakers. Despite the harsh words of older critics, who have taken our generation to task over our political apathy and low turnout rates, we urge our fellow students to maintain this high level of involvement. Students who are voting for the first time have not only sought...