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...Netherlands At Last, a Court of Last Resort After more than six years of diplomatic and legal disputes, the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its first trial in the Hague on Jan. 26. The self-described "court of last resort," which operates independently of the U.N., was created to oversee large-scale human-rights violations--like those allegedly orchestrated by Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, the court's first defendant. The trial of Lubanga for training child-soldiers during the region's 2002-03 ethnic conflict is also the first test of an international law allowing victims--like the 93 people...
...somehow perfect that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich would begin his media self-justification-and-jury-pool-influence tour at the same time that American Idol has returned to TV. Like the bad auditioners who spring anew from city and heartland every winter, Blago inspires the same questions every time he opens his mouth: Does he really have no idea how he sounds to other people? It's gotta be an act, right...
...fashioned. Blago seems less an old Chicago-machine boss than a distinct 21st century character: the American with Too Much Self-Esteem...
...begin life thinking that our perceptions define reality. Gradually we learn perspective: that there's a difference between how we see ourselves and how others perceive us. Since the invention of recording media, nearly every child has gone through a ritual unsettling demonstration of the gap between ideal self and actual self: hearing what your voice sounds like on tape. Play a kid's voice back to him for the first time and his reaction will probably be, "That's not me. I know what I sound like...
Eventually most of us come to accept that, no, we don't know. But now there are books, talk shows and self-help systems dedicated to unlearning that lesson. The Secret became a best seller by telling people that their attitudes and perceptions create reality. If you dream it, you can be it. If people say you can't sing--they're wrong. The true voice is the one you hear inside your head. Your mouth is not lying. Their ears...