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...million Hutu - one-eighth of this small central African country's population - who are expected to face trial for the 1994 genocide that wiped out an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu and political opponents of the former regime. Spectators squatting on a termite mound lean forward as Ntirushwamaboko describes how he and a gang of others corralled and slaughtered a group of Tutsi near the house of his victim, a 29-year-old farmer named Gonzaga Twagiramungu. Among the dead was his victim's 1-year-old son. "I'm asking for forgiveness from all Rwandans and the government...
Through selective news broadcasts, the American public is shown only a sleek, “lean machine” image of a war that is organized into victories and losses. In contrast, the Gunners live in a world of anticipation and insecurity, and it is this disjunction Palace aims to explore. Against inserted radio clips of Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized...
...store salesman and ascended to the top job in 2002, wants Best Buy to differentiate itself by focusing on upscale customers and providing them with the hand holding and service that today's increasingly complex electronics invite but that the Wal-Marts of the world, with their lean staffing, aren't equipped to provide...
...internal-security forces, and, since Sept. 11, a source of violent enmity toward the U.S. But as Bush's second term opened, he was blessed with rare opportunities to throw U.S. weight and prestige behind signs of reform. So Washington turned up the rhetoric about democracy to lean on longtime Middle East recalcitrants...
There is a strong lean towards Spanish instrumentation—rolling pianos, bongos, and the cleanly distorted guitar sounds associated with Carlos Santana—on much of “L’Via l Viaquez” and a down-tempo shift of the style on “Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore.” The breadth is impressive and serves the pacing of the 77-minute record...