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...course, nobody expects China to forget the past. The war launched by Japan's militarist leaders killed an estimated 20 million Chinese. During the Rape of Nanjing in 1937-38, soldiers butchered 300,000 civilians, according to Chinese figures. Most Japanese are aware of what happened but their society has never engaged in the type of introspection common in Germany after the Holocaust. Carefully worded official apologies have landed far short of the five-star kowtow demanded by Beijing, senior Tokyo officials occasionally deny atrocities and just last April a new government-approved textbook written by right-wing groups downplayed...
...she’s been dressed that way ever since. As one of only four Folklore and Mythology concentrators in her class, Spillane-Hinks has devoted herself to some profoundly esoteric academic pursuits. For a while, she had a fixation on fairy-rape imagery in Irish folklore. Today, she is studying the works of John Millington Synge, who was known during his lifetime as the most hated man in Ireland. In addition to her research on Synge, Spillane-Hinks will be putting on his most famous play this spring, Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin when...
...Zuma's image-and fortunes-have taken a battering this year, culminating on Tuesday with an appearance in court to answer a charge of rape. That's on top of the corruption charges the onetime leader of South Africa's Moral Regeneration Movement faces in a separate trial. But for many in the ruling African National Congress, Zuma's fall from grace is viewed not as a tale of personal failings, but instead as the workings of a conspiracy to blunt the grassroots left-wing challenge for the leadership of which the former Deputy President had been a champion...
...rape charge may have taken the wind out of their sales. Last month, after South African newspapers began reporting allegations that Zuma had raped a family friend, there was a noticeable falling off in public campaigning on his behalf. The politician has reportedly told friends he had engaged in consensual sex with the woman, a well known HIV-positive AIDS activist, but had never raped her. "I regard these allegations against me very seriously as I abhor any form of abuse against women," Zuma said in a statement after he was charged with rape...
...STAND chapter, said the idea for the conference developed when he met with Harvard students in October at the Darfur Fast day in Boston.At the conference, students heard from experts about the history of Darfur and its current situation.On Friday night, panelists described the pattern of rape and murder in the western region of Sudan. Andrew B. Loewenstein, a human rights lawyer commissioned by the U.S. State Department to investigate the genocide in Darfur, talked about his interviews with refugees in Eastern Chad.He said he heard stories of five-year-old African boys being “slaughtered like animals?...