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However, Porter also said that he is accessible to candidates from all parties and administrations from all over the world. The list of countries he has advised in the past includes Rwanda, Libya, and Kazakhstan...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Porter To Advise Romney Campaign | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...That's largely because Road, directed and co-written by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda), is much more plausibly character driven. We feel we know these people, possibly might even be these people in certain circumstances. There is, for example, something recognizably feckless in Ruffalo's character, clinging narrowly to respectability as a small-town lawyer, but running behind in everything from his support payments to his housekeeping habits. He loves his son deeply, but somehow doesn't seem to know what to do with him besides ordering pizza and watching ballgames with him. In particular, he has lost any hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Domestic Tragedies: Reservation Road and Things We Lost in the Fire | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...chaotic Democratic Republic of the Congo and the endangered mountain gorillas are in the crossfire. Only 700 mountain gorillas, the males known for their moonlit silver-haired backs, exist. More than half live in Virunga National Park, a conservation area in eastern Congo that stretches into bordering Uganda and Rwanda. But last weekend rebels loyal to the dissident Congolese general Laurent Nkunda, took over the last protected section of the gorilla habitat in the park, raising questions over the fate of this last known population of the great apes. "The rangers were forced to flee and have not been able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorillas in the Crossfire | 10/13/2007 | See Source »

...very mindful of our history. For instance, in our past, power has created problems in Rwanda. People used to think it was just a problem between Hutus and Tutsis. But when they came to power, even Hutus had their own conflicts. There was a power struggle between Hutus from the south and Hutus from the north. This had nothing to do with the Tutsis. So we looked at this and said there are many things that can create problems. First: ethnicities. Second: power. We need to put institutions and structures in place that we avoid exclusion of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with Rwandan President Paul Kagame | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...could ever have happened. What made people behave like that? Kagame: It's not easy to explain. Some of the things that were done, I still cannot speak about. We have to do research into it, we have to look into ourselves and work out why it happened in Rwanda. People were killing members of their own family. Fathers were killing their own children because some of them resembled their wife, who was a Tutsi. How do you explain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Conversation with Rwandan President Paul Kagame | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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