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...others. Bombs have been found at several colleges, leading many universities to institute full-body searches at their gates. Radical religious groups have infiltrated many student bodies, intimidating students and teachers alike. Some prominent Iraqis say the surge in extremism on campus holds grave portents for Iraq. "Once this poison enters the campus and infects the minds of our young people," says Mohammad Jaffer al-Samarrai, a geography professor in Baghdad, "then all hope is lost for society...
...might increase their risk of heart attack? "It's going to make it very difficult to do long-term-treatment projects," says Keresztes. Dubinett's approach is to recruit ex-smokers, people who have already substantially increased their risk of both lung cancer and heart attack. Pick your poison...
...smile in the sunshine. Popular Democratic bloggers continue posting only the negative stories out of Iraq. And just last week, a spokesperson for Moveon.org again condemned “the senseless number of Iraqi deaths that this war and instability has caused.” Once-idealistic liberals now poison their anti-Bush stew with what used to be heartlessly Republican foreign policy ideas: dictatorial “stability” over democratic turbulence, and “sovereignty” over human rights...
Some people express concern with the GIF itself, especially since it enters the uncharted waters of funding foreign troops. Many believe civilians should contribute to humanitarian aid only. However, with the unsafe environment in Darfur, aid cannot be disbursed. Genocidal militias seek to destroy the people in Sudan: they poison wells, push villagers into the desert, and conduct a terror campaign marked by rape and murder. These militias have realized that if they attack aid workers, then aid groups, such as the British charity Save the Children, pull out and more civilians die. The AU troops protect the aid convoys...
...film's achievement is to show there are stories worth hearing, and ravaged, resilient faces that reward our scrutiny. The horror, the gallows humor, the shame and the heroism, the lessons of this holocaust--and all others--have not been exhausted. We still have much to learn about the poison in our hearts. --By Richard Corliss