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The Tragedy of Sudan I have been haunted and sickened by the photos and news coming out of Sudan [Oct. 4]. Most of the world seems to completely ignore the genocide in the region of Darfur carried out by the government-backed Janjaweed Arab militia against non-Arab Muslims. Although...
The abortion question, asked by a young woman near the end of the debate, was a micro-history of the entire campaign. Kerry offered a labyrinthine answer. He was against abortion (as a Catholic) before he was for it (as a public servant). This is known in political circles as...
Lyrically, Banks sticks to what he knows. Themes of abandonment and ambiguous malaise still mingle melodramatically with weird, sometimes grotesque imagery. The prechorus of the first single, “Slow Hands,” covers much of the lyrical landscape: “Can’t you see...
The study involved the first-ever use on an infectious disease of a new research technique called chemical genetics. Every virus presents scientists with a new kind of genetic code?the challenge is to figure out how to decipher it to gain a fuller understanding of how the virus works...
It's hard not to pity the Woman in White. The poor, pale lady arrived in London's West End last week hauling a wagonload of expectations. This is, after all, Andrew Lloyd Webber's homecoming. Eighteen years after The Phantom of the Opera, after his American odysseys (Sunset Boulevard...