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...dramatic and documentary films, several of them in production now, from China, Japan, the U.S., Europe and Canada. Some of those films - like Ted Leonsis' Nanking, which is about the Safety Zone, a refuge for Chinese in Nanjing set up by foreigners - present a shocking picture of the rape, looting, and random execution visited on the civilian population by occupying troops. On the other end of the spectrum, there is the yet-to-be-released The Truth About Nanking, by Japanese director Satoru Mizushima, who maintains the massacre is a myth and who has set about to debunk it with...
...years ago, while I was studying Japanese history in college, I discovered just how complicated those feelings could become. That was the year Iris Chang published her seminal book, The Rape of Nanking, about Japan's brutal occupation of the Republic of China's capital in 1937. After reading about the wartime genocide during which hundreds of thousands of Chinese died in a matter of weeks - events commonly referred to as the Nanjing Massacre - I felt a crushing sense of shame...
...Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and an assortment of student groups and administrative bodies. “It’s to raise dialogue, bring it out to the open,” said Matthew G. Kessler ’09, a member of Harvard Men Against Rape, which is supporting the cause. “It’s an issue that’s not very discussed.” Ribbons will be available in the Science Center and at various dining halls through Thursday. Donning a white ribbon is a personal pledge never to commit, condone...
...Last Thursday, on a conference call with 70 county chairmen, a few people raised concerns about a recent spate of stories concerning a convicted rapist who, after Huckabee allegedly pressured the parole board on his behalf, was paroled and went on to rape and kill at least one other woman. Sarah explained her frustrations to those on the call. "I don't think it's hurting a lot of our support because one of the biggest misconceptions is that people think that governors actually have the ability to parole people and they don't. If anything the only action...
...that’s going on and the infanticide in our own country with the slaughter of millions of unborn children.” Certainly Huckabee faces many hurdles. He personally intervened to let a convicted murderer and rapist, Wayne DuMond, out of jail, only for DuMond to commit rape and murder again. He has also been heavily criticized by groups like the Club for Growth for an extreme number of tax increases as governor. Finally, he has nearly no foreign policy experience, and his vague statements on Iraq coupled with his ignorance regarding the recent National Intelligence Estimate...