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...private life the conscience is our secret police, driving us to repent, but in public life contrition is often more about opportunity than obedience. With epic misconduct on every front page--the Vice President's man a convicted perjurer, the sacred trust of wounded soldiers betrayed--there was a window for anyone accused of more commonplace crimes to wipe the slate clean...
Written without a hint of irony--if only your neighborhood dry cleaner sent his employees home by hybrid limousine--this front-page dispatch captured perfectly the eco-pretensions of the rich and the stupefying gullibility with which they are received...
...family and villagers by Salvadoran soldiers in 1981, Rufina Amaya, sole survivor of the El Mozote massacre, might have withered. Instead, in defiance of the governments of the U.S. and El Salvador, which denied the atrocity, she supplied graphic details to anyone who would listen. Her accounts prompted front-page stories in the Washington Post and the New York Times and ramped up congressional debate over U.S. aid to El Salvador. In the end, the U.S. continued to support its ally, which in the '90s passed a law exempting the army from prosecution. But Amaya, who returned to her country...
...lecture, he spent no time at all speaking about Hezbollah, let alone “praising the terrorist group,” and did not mention Osama Bin Laden once, although your columnists seem to like to invoke the name in order to make The Crimson op-ed page more sensationalistic...
...that jarring and surreal threads run throughout the script. However, she never intended to take the play in such a direction. “I started off writing something that was a little more traditional, had more of a definite plot and story arc, and I got about five pages into it and then I realized that I wasn’t necessarily being true to what I enjoyed writing the most,” she says. Benjamin began experimenting with new avenues of writing and eventually realized that each of her seemingly unrelated scenes were populated by the same...