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...teach us to be the antithesis of what is portrayed." Similarly, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (on which Oklahoma City is modeled), the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island, the battlefield sites of Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Little Big Horn and others are teaching institutions, telling the story of the event by means of videos, texts and artifacts. The World War II memorial in Washington, in the planning stages, will include a teaching museum...
...food aid to a needy country be tied to how its government behaves? For these two forlorn children in the drought-ravaged wasteland of Ethiopia's southeast, the answer may well determine if they live or die. The pair number among millions of largely nomadic people in the vast Horn of Africa region, threatened once again by famine. Three straight years of scant rainfall have caused the blistering of large tracts of grazing land, killing off herds of livestock and resulting in the death of hundreds of people, a figure that could rise alarmingly in coming months. Several countries...
...face severe food shortages as a result of several continuing months of drought. The newspaper also remarked that continuing rainfalls are expected to worsen conditions after the recent floods in Mozambique. This coverage represents a step in the right direction. But in addition to ignoring other countries in the horn of Africa--which would have doubled the number of starving people in the article's statistics--the paper found these events worthy to fill only a two-inch column of text. Even worse, the information was located on page 18 of the newspaper, just to the left...
...Samuel R. Hornblower ’02 is a History and Literature concentrator in John Winthrop House who likes to toot his own horn. He hails from Los Angeles and will admit most anyone...
...knew that I was going to be a musician; that was it. But The Decoders broke up right after we graduated in 1982. I was immediately inducted into The Sex Execs; I was brought in to bolster up the horn section. And they knew I was a good hang for them: another over-educated dude out there drinking too much beer and trying to be in a rock band...