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...disease continues to rage unchecked. Already the sub-Saharan region accounts for more than 60% of people living with HIV worldwide, or some 14 million men, women and children. As many people will die there this year from the disease as were massacred two years ago in the Rwandan holocaust. The social consequences of this die-off are catastrophic. By the year 2000, nearly 2 million children in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia will have lost their parents to the disease...
...presidency. America did not get involved in a larger war in Bosnia and did not intervene in Burundi, Liberia, Zaire or Sudan. No fuss arose about the illegal fund-raising practices of the Democrats. No fury erupted when it was revealed that Swiss bankers kept Nazi loot stolen from Holocaust victims...
...Rifkin), the head of a family publishing house, loves the very bookness of books--their smell, new or old, and the texture of fine paper, on which is written witness to a century of atrocity. But the public may want a sexy novel more than The Architecture of the Holocaust. Anyway, that's the belief of Isaac's grown children (Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton), who wrest control of the house from their father. Soon after, Isaac lapses into a madness that estranges him from the world as fully as from his family...
...Hitler's Willing Executioners (Knopf). In the year's most talked about book, Harvard historian Daniel Jonah Goldhagen argues that the Holocaust should be blamed not just on the Nazi faithful but also on ordinary Germans. His evidence of widespread cruelty toward Jews by rank-and-file German soldiers seems irrefutable; his explanation for it has produced brisk debate on the source of human inhumanity...
This incident affirms the fears of so many Holocaust survivors. If the tragedy of the Holocaust and its seriousness are being questioned so soon after the event, what lies in store for us when first-hand memories are gone? On the most basic level, the author of the "Schindler's List" piece offers a critique of the gravity and validity of the Holocaust, as do all who find amusement in "Holocaust humor." It is a sad testimonial to the legacy of our First Amendment that such material is considered to be imbued with enough expressive value to be published...