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...attempts to strengthen the U.N. military presence in Rwanda" after suffering losses in Somalia five months earlier. It also accuses France of allowing the perpetrators to escape to nearby Congo. Canada's former U.N. envoy STEPHEN LEWIS, one of seven authors, said the episode left "an almost incomprehensible scar of shame" on U.S. policy. "I don't know how MADELEINE ALBRIGHT lives with it." A State Department spokesman says that Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has talked of her frustration. In his 1998 trip to Africa, President Clinton apologized to Rwanda. The report recommends wiping out Rwanda...
...next microchip or the launch of a new dotcom? "We can't worry about what's going on on Wall Street," says Mayor James Wilson. "We've got to worry about what's going on on Main Street." And right now, Cairo's Main Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail and the town blew wide open. At the turn of the century, Cairo had vied with Chicago and St. Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring...
...from always providing definitive answers, CT scans often produce ambiguity, particularly when healthy people are subjected to them. Most of the time the scans turn up harmless stuff--a little scar tissue, a benign growth. But when they do, doctors have to perform more medical tests, frequently including invasive procedures, just to make sure that the spot is really harmless. "There certainly will be some people whose lives are saved [by the screening]," says Dr. Ron Arenson at the University of California, San Francisco. "But you have to weigh that against maybe thousands of patients who have had to undergo...
Sinister acts included Uncle Scar slaying Mufasa in The Lion King and Mickey Mouse attempting to axe the water-carrying broom in Fantasia...
...Cinderella), you'll even get deviant sexuality (we all know Ursula was a drag queen...) The cliche holds true for these female villains - evil really does have many faces. The male villains, in contrast, are have the same unexplained, thuddingly banal goal - world domination. But what about Jafar and Scar, you say? Phluueeaassse. Both of them are excruciatingly effeminate, especially Scar. Their menace comes from their skeeziness. So back to my hypothesis - why are Disney films not as memorable these days? Because we haven't had a female villain since The Little Mermaid in '88. And just look...