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...that, the more I learn about shock the more I understand that shock tactics work best when we are starved of information and are taken by surprise. Shock tactics rely on that element of surprise. They're about a gap between an event and the information we have to explain those events. So the sort of deeper reason why I wrote the book is because I believe that when we understand those tactics we become more shock resistant. That the mere act of sort of unpacking and looking at how we regress in moments of trauma is the best form...
...TIME: How do you explain the 2003 election figure, recording that you won 95% of the vote? A lot of people look at that and say: 'That's just not credible.' Kagame: Why? The burden is on them to prove their case. But I can prove my case. It all depends on the context in the country. In our case, what were the circumstances? People coming out of a genocide. A lot of chaos. So people wanted peace and security, to break away from the past. And they really focused on what could bring that. And what was it? People...
...TIME: There this enduring mystery over how the genocide could ever have happened. What made people behave like that? Kagame: It's not easy to explain. Some of the things that were done, I still cannot speak about. We have to do research into it, we have to look into ourselves and work out why it happened in Rwanda. People were killing members of their own family. Fathers were killing their own children because some of them resembled their wife, who was a Tutsi. How do you explain that...
...traveled 4 ft. (1.2 m)--before eating itself in a fiery explosion. The global hilarity was immediate, but U.S. officials--who had much to learn about the science of rocketry but clearly knew plenty about the art of spin--would have none of it. Asked to explain the cause of the explosion, a spokesman denied one had taken place. Asked what had occurred on the pad, he answered, "Rapid burning...
...They can’t explain how giving a nursing mother additional time would detrimentally affect the exam,” Currier said. “There’s no reason why women should have to choose between following medical advice and advancing their careers...