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However, many Americans are not as quick to make the distinction between Palestinian and Israeli violence. In the interest of remaining fair and equitable towards the plight of Palestinians living under admittedly terrible economic conditions, Americans have been too quick to equate Israeli aggression with Palestinian aggression and vaguely call for both sides to end the violence—a position that vilifies both sides and that obscures the distinction between individuals who craft plans to kill innocents and governments who seek to eradicate specific sources of terrorist activity...
...DMX’s “Up In Here,” Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West ‘74 took the mic. While West delivered tight rhymes about “shaking yo’ ass” and “the plight of the underclass,” Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ‘53 and Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz engaged Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler in a freak sandwich. “I give all my ladies D’s” said Mansfield...
...said that nearly one-third of American women murdered each year are killed by their current or former partners, usually by their husbands. About one million women each year report being stalked. Law also stressed the plight of children witness to domestic violence in their homes, which can “spawn future legacies of violence in families across America...
...Karkhla plain is a stark portrait of Afghanistan's plight: one of the world's poorest and most battle-scarred people, plagued by superpower struggles and their own tribal and ethnic feuds, reduced to fleeing to neighboring countries to do menial work for a beggar's wage. Afghans are on their knees, and only international aid can help them back to their feet. "There is nothing in Afghanistan," says Ibrahim Khan Shinwari, Farras' father, who brought his family from the village of Battan in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province two years ago to make bricks for the GI Brick Co., owned...
...delicious and complex can of worms: it is, on the one hand, about making accessible the privileged visual psychology of a single individual-about lending one's own personal metaphysical lens to others. It is, at the same time, about an incommunicable intra-personal struggle, the sturm und drang plight of the soul and the extent to which its subjective experience is completely inexpressible...