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...Schlink's illiteracy conceit works so well. If you can read - whether it be a book or highly visible mass behavior - yet refuse to do so, then what might in another context be dismissed as no more than backwoods ignorance is transformed into a vast and palpable moral crime. I'm not certain that Schlink's novel or this film makes that connection explicit. Both have obligations to melodramatic plotting and characterization that to a degree blur the inherent point of the exercise. In the end, Hanna's defense of her crime - she allowed most of her prisoners...
...home town of Johannesburg where, as in the rest of South Africa, over half the population is under 25 and many are AIDS orphans, this generation - and the next - faces widespread unemployment, a struggle for education in derelict and under-resourced schools, and homelessness in an environment riddled with crime. The challenge goes out to Kerzner to put an equivalent $20 million into funds such as the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and other youth development projects. South Africa has been very good to you and for you, Sol. Now it's payback time. Brent Record, VANDERBIJLPARK, SOUTH AFRICA...
...three years after the fall of Nazi Germany and the end of some of the worst human atrocities in history, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), which was eventually ratified by 140 nations, including the U.S. in 1986. The Convention marks its 60th anniversary on Dec. 9 against the backdrop of a monumental human rights crisis in Darfur and an enduring debate over the effectiveness of the CPPCG and other measures aimed at stopping genocide. (See pictures of the U.N. General Assembly members...
...International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda established the precedent that rape warfare is in fact a crime of genocide, in its judgment on the extermination of an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis at the hands of Rwandan Hutu militias. It was a landmark addition to the term?s legal definition, and a judgment that could be important in future International Criminal Court proceedings related to the current situation in Darfur. Many observers have recounted stories of rape being used systematically as a weapon in Sudan for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, and the International Criminal Court is expected to decide...
...Friends select people to be their friends based on similar characteristics,” said Fletcher, “and potentially happy people choose to be friends with other happy people.” He added that friends are often exposed to the same environment, including similar levels of crime, risk, and weather, and that those external variables could influence happiness more than a friend’s mood. In light of these criticisms, both research groups plan to continue probing into the field of happiness with future studies. “The whole point of science is that...