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...last! Someone else who understands and loves cicadas [AMERICAN SCENE, July 15]. Unfortunately, too many uneducated or misinformed people malign these incredible insects. They are magnificent. I am a longtime fan, and hearing my first cicada each year is a special, eagerly anticipated event. Jackie Geyer Pittsburgh...
...country's lackluster political class still oversees a system of corrupt and malign decision-making that has failed to meet the most basic needs of its 500,000 citizens. Trust in the public sphere is virtually nonexistent, and by almost every measure of well-being, Solomon Islanders are the region's poor relations, their natural resources sold cheaply or stolen. "It's like Solomon Islands fell down a well," says Johnson Honimae, until recently general manager of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation and now head of the government's information unit. "We are hurt, the water...
...brass of a big organization is charged with gross errors. The bosses circle the wagons until public clamor forces an inquiry by an elder statesman, who confirms the mistakes and many other management lapses but says they were the result of misjudgment rather than malign intent. Should the brass resign? In January, when the organization was the BBC and Lord Hutton concluded it had violated journalistic standards by accusing the government of sexing up the case for war in Iraq, Tony Blair was all for the departure of the BBC's chairman and Director General. Last week, though, he felt...
...best known for Schindler's List, has said this novel began in his feelings of "grief and shame and outrage" at the treatment of the mainly Middle Eastern refugees seeking asylum in his home country, which is why Great Uncle is not his main focus. He's merely the malign spirit who hangs over his story, a nutty potentate who comes onstage just twice, always preceded by the efficient sadists of his elite guard, each of them enclosed in his own cloud of Tommy Hilfiger. Keneally's main concern is with the trials of Alan Sheriff, a refugee...
...Iran’s civil society against their theocratic rulers and inspire people from North Korea to Libya to dream of self-governance, we have to stand behind countries like India. In our quest for the hearts and minds of peoples across the world, ending our policy of malign neglect toward India would make an “in-Delhi-able” impression...