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UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights Amii Omara-Otunnu ’80 accused the media of selectively covering certain humanitarian crises while turning a blind eye to others, especially the on-going civil war in Uganda, at a film screening and discussion event Wednesday night. The event was co-sponsored by Harvard African Students Association (HASA) and uNight, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in northern Uganda. Since the initial 1986 rebellion, Uganda has seen constant conflict between the government and the rebel forces which reorganized as the Lord’s Resistance...
...strayed over the center line, he was prosecuted for the crash (he got off lightly), sued by the prosecutor for defamation (he settled) and skewered in the Australian press for questioning the legal process (he never stood a chance). His many injuries have not entirely healed, but his critical eye remains intact. Who else could have looked Death in the face and seen a learned reference to medieval art? In Things I Didn't Know, Hughes focuses that same informed, unsparing scrutiny on his life. He does not escape uninjured, confessing infidelities, drug trips and lapses of faith, confidence...
...most fascinating truth that the reader will take away from Cordingly’s book is not the fact that killer eye patches, the Jolly Roger, and screaming “Yaarrggh!” while pillaging a merchant ship for her booty were all indeed a part of pirate history...
...more fascinating is the revelation that pirates, eye patches and all, greatly influenced “important” stuff—like the Age of Discovery and the founding of the modern world...
...different times to perform their complex functions. "Under the microscope, neurons look the same, but in terms of gene expression, it looks like there are differences," says Foltz. "This has opened up whole new fields for cognitive neuroscientists to understand what makes the [neurons] that go to the eye different from the ones that go to the memory center or the ear. The atlas allows you to make inferences, and inspires you to think of all kinds of things...