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...only to look at the plight of the Muslims of Banja Luka, deep in the belly of the Serbian stronghold in Bosnia. The disenfranchised Muslims there already know what is in store for them if their homeland is officially deemed a Serbian statelet. For 10 months, they have seen their kinfolk murdered and driven from their homes by the hundreds of thousands. They experience terror nightly as drunken thugs prowl Banja Luka's icy streets. They have lost their jobs and most legal status: they need special papers just to walk freely under the open...
...surprise to learn that Violet, ungrateful and naive, was formerly employed in a fish factory before her rescue by Uyttersprot, and that her parents work in the nitrate mines. As it does to many other characters in this play, heavy-handed stereotyping effectively and lamentably trivializes Violet's plight...
...Along with admirers, the Beit Hashoah already has critics. Muslim organizations charge that the museum ignores the plight of Palestinians. New York Times senior writer Judith Miller, author of One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust, accuses the museum of "vulgarization," noting that some Jewish scholars consider the "sound and light" approach disrespectful...
...apparent impotence of current programs in the face of the face of the problems of the underclass is what makes Norplant's use-- required or with incentives--so tempting. No one who seriously cares about the plight of the poor can assail the short-term logic of resorting to Norplant. But it is based on a false premise: merely reducing the number of children born into poverty or other adverse living conditions does not in itself remove the condition and is thus an overly simplistic method of dealing with the current crisis...
Having a blue-chip resume is fine, but not at the expense of sensitivity to everyone else's plight. "This is a crowd that doesn't have the stature to demand sacrifice," says Kevin Phillips, author of the new book Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. "These are people who spent Vietnam in Oxford; they are $500,000 lawyers who hire illegal immigrants as baby-sitters; they are hotshot lobbyists. This group has no understanding of the kind of sacrifices made every day by the $26,000-a-year couple in Peoria, Illinois. They...