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U.N. security forces have been in Bosnia for weeks; they're sitting around, wringing their hands, as the Serbian shelling continues. But Rwanda, on U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's home continent, has not received more than cautious rhetoric.
Participants in the conference discussed health, the role of women, famine, religion and technology on the continent. The conference also stopped for a moment of silence to remember those slain in Rwanda, where thousands died in fighting this weekend.
Cardinal Richelieu, the First Minister of France at the time, developed the concept of national interest while working to prevent the revival of the Holy Roman Empire, which he deemed a threat to France's security even though both were Catholic. No longer were national interests to be equated with...
This, after all, is the arena of human evolution, where no theory dies without a fight and no bit of new evidence is ever interpreted the same way by opposing camps. The next big discovery could tilt the scales toward the multiregional hypothesis, or confirm the out-of-Africa theory...
The official and popular response to Schindler's List was a mixture of benumbed awe and gratitude. But, as in the U.S., some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead, turned a continent's horror story...