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...Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together detailed information-gathered mainly from extensive interviews with more than 30 former inmates-about the horrors in the camps. Hawk, who ran the U.N.'s human-rights office in Cambodia in the 1990s, had helped document the killing fields there and the genocide in Rwanda. He brought rare credibility to a politically charged issue, and there have been few questions raised about the report's details or general conclusions since its publication a year ago. "If anything, when the history is eventually written, we'll probably...
...whose celebrated eye for cultural detail leads those who know little of his chosen subject to accept his account as truth. In a famous 1988 essay entitled “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,” Wolfe lambastes his literary contemporaries for not trying to accurately document the frenetic vagaries of our nation’s reality, the “irresistibly lurid carnival of American life...
...when John Adams and his friend Thomas Jefferson were writing that famous document, the Declaration of Independence, they said, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident.’ What’s happened, you know?” Bilheimer continued reflectively, his voice breaking. “What’s happened to these proud notions? I wonder...
...government and people of this country can get back to the business at hand. We will go on, as we have in the past, thanks to the foresight of our Founding Fathers. They were familiar with the public's passionate political differences and dealt with that in the document we so treasure: the Constitution. Carol A. Duda Grove City...
...explained Montpellier shop owner and Socialist Party member Jean-Claude Arnel. "We're here to demonstrate just how big our commitment to Europe is." Why so much controversy now over the constitution when President Jacques Chirac has said that the country as a whole won't vote on the document until well into next year? For starters, the outcome of the Socialists' vote, expected over the weekend, could be a harbinger of things to come - both within France and across the E.U. To be ratified, the constitution must be approved by each member state. A rejection, or even a narrow...