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...forget that those responsible for the madness were themselves human, albeit tragically flawed. In the first part of the book, Bizot's portrait of Ta Douch, his jailer at Anlong Veng, provides unique insight into the single-mindedness that is often the wellspring of genocide. Douch later presided over Tuol Sleng, the regime's most infamous prison, now a museum, in Phnom Penh. The horror of the tortures and murders committed there, the sheer accumulation of human gore, leads many contemporary visitors to conclude that it must have been the work of monsters. Yet in fact it was the work...
...pain that she did not want to revisit ever again.Perkins finally linked the Pleiades poem back to life at Harvard. “The blonde woman in the poem is probably what most guys on this campus want,” she said. The members could not offer more insight on the Pleiades-Pleiades coincidence. They hadn’t heard of most of the writers published in the literary journal and only one of them had ever been to Missouri...
Novels about the discrimination suffered by Asians in America tend to be melodramatic affairs calculated to get readers reaching for tissues rather than insight. Julie Otsuka's first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, is a crisp departure from the Asian-American sobfest. Otsuka's tale of the disintegration of a Japanese-American family during World War II offers a powerful indictment of government-sponsored paranoia that has implications for today's U.S. war on terror...
...brains. It’s kind of like how when I graduate and I don’t have a job my parents will berate me for wasting the opportunities that Harvard is supposed to have granted me. So making good use of this opportunity to share my marvelous insight is important to me. Therefore I must speak on a topic that needs to be addressed...
...their little Harvard students, the parents also swarmed Science Center B for some special speakers and informative events organized by the Junior Parents’ Weekend Committee, a coalition of students determined to make parents’ stays as enjoyable and informative as possible. These events gave parents another insight into the world at Harvard, and also gave them an opportunity to ask questions about University policy and the lives of their sons and daughters...