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...Grindlay, however, offers a slightly different take. “Do you change history or do you present it as it is and try to do better?” she says. “You try to right the balance...
...this weekend, is the culmination of their studies, exploring the post-traumatic stress associated with the hardships accounted in war. The group has been working on the production for over a year, conducting interviews with veterans and soldiers in order to familiarize themselves with the war experiences of the present and the recent past. Students have also researched the evolution of war over the past few millennia. “The research projects went in a lot of different directions,” says Renzo Ampuero, one of the student actors. “Some people looked at American behavior...
...Nations issued the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight objectives to advance human welfare, “from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS,” by 2015. Also among the targets were the establishment of universal primary education and reduction of maternal mortality rates. At present rates, with 75 million children lacking schooling and one mother dying in childbirth each minute, these two targets will not even be achieved by 2100, according to British prime minister Gordon Brown...
...Assembly last week, China initialized programs to promote clean energy in Africa and Saudi Arabia committed $500 million to enroll 24 million children in primary school. The U.S. only pledged a paltry $61 million over five years, despite the fact that the interconnectedness and global character of all the present crises is becoming painfully apparent. Irony is everywhere. If you think the cash for a $700 billion dollar bailout is coming from taxpayers during an election year, think again: It’s coming from Beijing’s stockpiled reserves...
...along with equally relevant and macabre side trips. Amidst the American historical non sequiturs for which she seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge, Vowell keeps her attention fixed on each assassination’s social and political context, all filtered through a self-conscious awareness of the present. Not to mention, it was very funny.“The Wordy Shipmates” takes the most engaging aspects of that book—its dry, biting wit; its playful narrative; and, most importantly, its passion for history—and enriches them. Free from that last book?...