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...documentary simultaneously traces the life of Dominique, an agronomist turned radio journalist, and the transformation of Haiti from brutal dictatorship to equally brutal military rule to corrupt oligarchy with democratic overtones. The film is helped out by Dominique’s eccentric character—gleeful, charismatic and contrarian, which singled him out for persecution at the hands of one or another strongman’s private militia. This oppression of Dominique, his followers and poor Haitians in general is ultimately the theme that ties the film’s large historical bookends. Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage...
Shorenstein Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon ’91 said she strongly supported Nye’s arguments. She said she had developed similar opinions on international relations during her 10 years in Asia as a CNN journalist...
...stand poised to take his place at the company's helm. But the old man still seems frisky and in no hurry to step aside. And until he does, he'll continue to play the role he clearly relishes: powerful, vilified and, most of all, imitated. --By John Heilemann, journalist and author of Pride Before the Fall
...tall, thin, soft-spoken Witten, 52, didn't even set out to be a scientist. He majored in history at Brandeis and originally planned to be a journalist but ended up getting a Ph.D. in physics instead. By the mid-1980s, some of his colleagues had decided that the answer to Einstein's failed dream was to treat the building blocks of matter--quarks, photons, electrons and such--as minuscule, vibrating strings of energy rather than as particles. But superstring theory was considered no more than an esoteric and eccentric subspecialty until Witten (by this time a full professor...
...been bystanders to genocide," Samantha Power wrote in the opening of her 2002 book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. "The crucial question is why." Combining archival research with her own reporting from the killing fields of Rwanda and Bosnia, Power, a former freelance journalist and war correspondent, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, set out to explain why the U.S., at the height of its power, failed to stop the major genocides of the 20th century. Power's study examined U.S. responses to such horrors as the Ottoman massacre of the Armenians, the Nazi...