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...tremendous leadership time and time again by backing up his great speeches with even greater actions. There is no country in the world that has had to endure a more gruesome aftermath of a total breakdown in leadership than Rwanda. In 1994, Rwanda suffered a tragedy unimaginable in both scope and brutality. It was the fastest genocide in recorded history. An estimated 800,000 to one million innocent civilians were killed in a span of one hundred days, and hundreds of thousands fell victim to displacement and starvation in the following weeks and months. The international community?...
...Another shortcoming of such a mode of Holocaust education is its narrow scope. Children are all too likely to become embroiled in the personal horror of the individual they are studying and thus miss the horror of the Holocaust as a whole. Even the horror of the Holocaust as a whole does not properly illustrate the horror of war crimes and genocide as a whole. The French government’s demons are far too numerous to be exorcised with education about the Holocaust alone. The French government has committed atrocities equal in scope and destruction in its bloody history...
...outsiders comprehend the scope of the additional demands of varsity athletics in the Ivy League as compared to other extra-curricular activities—the early morning lift sessions, the entire weekends devoted to far-flung tournaments—especially in an environment primarily focused on academics. Jeffrey H. Orleans was one of those few. As the executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference, Orleans was not merely well meaning in his wariness of the potential encroachment of athletics into university priorities—most notably his opposition to participation in the national football postseason?...
...facing similar suits if they chose to publish or host controversial material. Those critics also said the ruling could set a dangerous precedent for the Internet, a new frontier in the battle over free speech whose terrain remains largely uncharted. Of particular concern to free speech advocates was the scope of the injunction. "The initial order was the Cyberspace equivalent of shutting down a newspaper" because of one story, says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It was unconstitutional and unenforceable...
...world standard, what is the scenario of the poor man?" asks A. Ravindran, an officer in the Indian Air Force and one of the 18 million Indians riding a train on the day I met him in the air-conditioned carriage we shared. "There is still scope for improvement." Some policymakers would like to privatize the train system - though given India's political sensitivities that could take years. Yadav and Kumar argue that you don't need to sell India's railways, that things are improving even under government control. "Railways were in a denial mode, living on past glories...