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First come the corpses of men and older boys, slain trying to protect their sisters and mothers. Then come the women and girls, flushed out from their hiding places and cut down. Last are the babies, who may bear no wounds: they are tossed alive into the water, to drown on their way downstream. The bodies, or pieces of them, glide by for half an hour or so, the time it takes to wipe out a community, carry the victims to the banks and dump them in. Then the water runs clear for awhile, until men and older boys drift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why? the Killing Fields of Rwanda | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...heavies, moreover, are considerably less frightening than those in real life. Murders on these shows are nearly always committed by well-groomed, well-to-do white people, and the deeds are neat, bloodless, imaginatively staged. In recent weeks we have seen a magician drown in a tank of water when his escape trick is sabotaged (Diagnosis Murder); a late-night TV host electrocuted by his microphone at a Friars-type roast (Burke's Law); and a manic-depressive book editor driven to near madness and pushed off a building roof to feign a suicide (Murder, She Wrote). Murders are never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Murder, They Wheezed | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...want people to come in and drown andstruggle," says Harrington. "It's kind of a falsekindness if you admit people [who aren't able todo the work...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: What's Your Major? Apply First, Please | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...film submerges the viewers in the horrors of the Holocaust, it does not allow them to drown there. If provides the possibility of redemption, of light in the midst of so much darkness. It affirms that although humans have the capacity for evil such as is depicted in the movie, they also have the capacity for good which will allow them to combat the evil. Painful, beautiful, uplifting and indelible, "Schindler's List" reveals itself as the most supremely humanist of films...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Spielberg Makes Good | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

Full of emotion, humor, zest, truth...quotable beauties like these do not cross our path very often. If you, the reader, are tired of hearing how "this loss is really a positive for us," then believe me when I tell you that we at The Crimson drown...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Nation of Spin Doctors Should not Hold Us Back | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

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