Word: leopolds
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...King is due to announce his plans on next Monday. That is the Belgian national day, which commemorates the coronation of the country's first King, Leopold I, in 1831. The day is usually celebrated with a grand military parade through the center of Brussels. And although Belgians have weathered such crises many times before, they will also wonder how much longer they can expect to be treated to such army displays...
What about those Abu Ghraib photographs? In "King Leopold's Soliloquy," a fulminating essay he published in 1905, when he was a very cantankerous 70, Twain imagines the ruler of Belgium pitying himself for the inconvenience of photos showing natives of the Congo whose hands have been cut off by Belgian exploiters. In the good old days, Leopold complains, he could deny atrocities and be believed. "Then all of a sudden came the crash! That is to say, the incorruptible Kodak--and all the harmony went to hell! The only witness I have encountered in my long experience that...
...Congo has been the suffering heart of Africa for more than a century, and its turbulent colonial history has been well documented in novels like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and in Adam Hochschild's nonfiction King Leopold's Ghost. But the more recent travails of what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) have until now been poorly appreciated. And they are apocalyptic. In January, the International Rescue Committee estimated that 5.4 million people have died in the various wars - and their related effects - that have torn through Congo since...
Kreisberg and Leopold both noted the importance of diverse interests in an MBA applicant...
This year, after the completion of the second round, 21 undergraduates have received offers of direct admission, while 15 have received offers of deferred admission, according to Leopold...