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...original U.N. Convention on Genocide, passed on December 9, 1948, states the issue clearly, Genocide, "an odious scourge," is a crime committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group..." This convention was the direct response to Nazi mass murder. At the time, the 1946 resolution against genocide and the convention were viewed as vital components of an international prevention of this crime. As Allen Barth noted in 1948, this concrete stance against evil was necessary because the Holocaust was an event that "the human mind finds it difficult to remember...
...have not herded Palestinian Arabs into a Dachau or a Treblinka, nor have they set up their own apartheid system based on the idea that Jews and Arabs are different species of humanity--Israel's attackers seem merely to rewrite history for parochial ends, to falsify terms as part of an easily-recognized scheme. Although they seem trivial, such statements secrete a different, more lethal poison...
...Part of the answer may lie in the nature of the new group. Although they will issue no position papers, and say they have no official stands on city issues, many of its members have recently bought condominiums. In addition, a leading advocate of condominium conversion in the city, William H. Walsh, belongs to the CCC. Controls on condominium conversion and rent increases are the hottest issues in the November 6 election...
...there's been a drought since. Now comes Arthur Kirkland, who works perfectly for Pacino because he's a blend of Michael Corleone and Serpico. Like Corleone, Kirkland wants to do everything himself; like Serpico, he's a man fighting society in the name of justice. The part's tailor-made for Pacino...
Lately, every movie with a strong leading man has a Diane Keaton counterpart, a woman who stand three inches taller and carries a superwoman image. In Justice Christine Lahti is Gail Packer, a three-piece-suited lawyer who believes she's doing her part for humanity by serving on an ethics committee that investigates lawyers...