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...cover. But we keenly feel his absence. And in a singularly eerie scene, State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly is heard on TV as she tries to deny that the situation on the ground in Rwanda rises to the level of genocide. Shelly’s words roundly contradict the reality on the screen. George chooses not to show Shelly’s face—in an apparent attempt to accentuate America’s emotional distance from the horrors in the heart of Africa...
Yesterday’s edition of the Boston Globe, citing sources close to Indiana’s search committee, appeared to contradict that prediction, singling out Murphy and Kansas State defensive coordinator Bob Elliot as the two favorites for the vacant head coaching position...
When the political discourse descends to the level of a sports rivalry (“Taxes suck!” “Trade sucks!”), is it really surprising that many voters are unaware of facts that contradict their preexisting beliefs? After burrowing into a comfortably black-and-white worldview, who wants to go to the trouble of reevaluating it in light of new evidence? It’s hard work...
...vilify the U.S. And it goes without saying that their privileged lives bear little resemblance to those of the country's ordinary workers and farmers. But the film is remarkable because it offers a rare look at North Korean daily lives?and because its very existence seems to contradict the regime's policy of nearly total isolation. A State of Mind offers scenes of indoctrination in action as a "revolutionary-history" teacher exhorts junior high school students to hate the U.S. and drills them on Kim Il Sung's "three types of greatness." (The correct answers: greatness in ideology, greatness...
...countries that are increasingly pressed to find new reservoirs of energy, regardless of the costs involved in exploration and production. Responsible citizens, who largely benefit from China’s consumption of oil and subsequent exports, must also consider the degree to which the short term benefits of consumption contradict international standards of human rights and U.S. security interests. What better place to begin this discussion about the long-term consequences of present actions than at the leading university in the world...