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This is not the Paul Wolfowitz the world is used to seeing. On a lush hillside in Rwanda last week, Wolfowitz - the über-hawk, the architect of the Iraq war, the embodiment of everything that the Bush Administration's critics find detestable about U.S. foreign policy - was talking about coffee. Standing beside tables of drying coffee under the beating sun, Wolfowitz, just two weeks into his new role as president of the World Bank, picked up a bean and asked a worker how he could tell that it was a good one. It's the color, the man said...
...Human rights are the basis of our future,” said Dallaire, who hails from Canada and served as the Force Commander for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda from 1993 to 1994, during the brutal genocide which left more than 800,000 dead...
Dallaire said that graduates should recognize the importance and equality of every human life—and illustrated his point with a story from his time in Rwanda...
...June 27, 1993, he was asked by his superior, Major-General Armand Roy, whether he could deploy overseas to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the nation of Rwanda...
...confess that when General Roy called, I didn’t know where Rwanda was or exactly what kind of trouble the country was in,” Dallaire writes in his book...