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...also need to change the way we vote, rewarding politicians willing to make the tough choices on climate. Instead of a new Manhattan Project - the metaphor often used for global warming - Sterman believes that what is needed is closer to a new civil rights movement, a large-scale campaign that dramatically changes the public's beliefs and behaviors. New groups like Al Gore's We Campaign are aiming for just such a social transformation, but "the reality is that this is even more difficult than civil rights," says Sterman. "Even that took a long time, and we don't have...
...according to humanitarian NGO the International Rescue Committee, the war in Congo - which escalated into a full-scale civil war in 1998 that lasted until 2003, and still erupts periodically, as now - has killed 5.4 million people, mostly through hunger and disease...
...other end of the scale is the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur. It has strictly observed the peacekeeping tenets on neutrality, limiting itself mostly to its bases and never opening fire unless directly fired upon. In other words, says de Waal, it has been ineffectual, "a liability. Ten thousand soldiers just sitting in their bases." Even that hasn't saved them, however. Last October in the camp of Haskanita, 10 African Union peacekeepers - seven Nigerian, two Batswana and a Senegalese - were killed by a group of Darfur rebels, again part of the community whom the peacekeepers had been sent...
...Culbreath takes it to the three, just shy of a first down, and I suppose on a larger scale, just shy of a touchdown...
What ensues is a regeneration drama, but unlike many movies in that often sentimental and melodramatic vein, its scale is modest and understated. Juliette needs a job. She also needs an apartment of her own. And perhaps (she hardly dares think about this), a man. But she's a marked woman. None of these goals are easy for an ex-con to attain. That's especially true of Juliette, who is obviously intelligent - in her former life, we learn, she was a highly respected doctor - but also inarticulate, unable to defend herself against a casually cold world...