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Catastrophes often have a double affect on those blessed enough to survive them. First, there is a numbness as the scale of horror sinks in. But then comes action, as the lucky ones turn to doing what they can to help the less fortunate, and, in time, to ameliorate the conditions that gave rise to disaster in the first place. This second reaction isn't just a personal one - that of neighbors trying to assist those who have been harmed. It can extend to an examination of whole systems of government. The Mexico City earthquake of 1985 was the catalyst...
...From this subterranean realm, Felix, 5, Stefan, 18, and Kerstin, 19, have now come blinking into the world. While Austria recoils in horror at the crime that produced the children, and grapples with how it remained undiscovered for so long, the Fritzls have a more basic challenge ahead of them: survival. Can children constrained to such a stunted sphere adjust to the world's cacophony? And what can modern science and medicine do to help...
...this decision is that the Indiana law is just one part of the voting mess that America currently faces. Many people assumed that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was breaking the final barrier in opening voting booths to all Americans. But as the country has witnessed in horror in 2000 in Florida and with much less concern in Ohio in 2000 and 2004, the voting systems that we currently use are nowhere near ideal. In the history of America, states have failed to protect voters’ right or ability to vote, whether out of racism or apathy...
...recently, shock-art has had a little extra spice added. In their thirst for authenticity, artists are increasingly trying to bring real acts of cruelty and horror into the art gallery—Shvarts’ miscarriage extravaganza is just one example. In Nicaragua, Costa Rican artist Guillermo Habacuc Vargas found himself a stray dog, tied it up in the corner without food or water, and let visitors watch it die (though there remains speculation over whether the dog was removed before it actually expired...
...then president, and eventually directing the group’s 50th anniversary productions of “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “Trial by Jury.” Miller has only appeared on the Harvard stage twice, once as Frankenfurter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and once in a Gilbert and Sullivan production as a last-minute replacement...