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...Finally, it is questionable why our primary concern when faced with genocide should be whether our own hands are somehow dirtied by it. It makes little sense for strategies that could effect real change in Darfur, such as military intervention or humanitarian aid, to be ignored in favor of attempts to clear our own consciences. It is self-centered of students to suggest that Harvard’s portfolio matters at all to those directly affected by the genocide...
...does not feel like patronizing director Marc Forster's film. One feels more like cheering it along. Yes, it is full of contrivance and coincidence. Yes, it comes to an uplifting ending that is not entirely plausible. And yes, we somehow never doubt that the good people of this tale are somehow going to triumph, even when they lose everything and are immersed in historical darkness. That's because they have the only qualities that count in stories of this kind - pluck, decency and resilient spirits...
...House Without a Christmas Tree is a special that somehow got lost in the mass-remarketing of old Christmas fare. Like The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (the 1971 special that spawned the series The Waltons), it's a lovingly but realistically told story that touches the emotional essence of Christmas without indulging in its kitschy excess...
...Nanny.” The books follow the woes of Amelia, maid for the wealthy Rogers family, who always interprets her employers’ instructions far too literally and risks her job in the ensuing chaos. Luckily, Amelia’s superb cooking skills somehow always save the day. Moral of the story: when your professional skills fail, ladies, get your apron-wearing self back to the kitchen, where you belong. 4. Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego, “Leo the Late Bloomer”: Although not a series, this one still counts because it’s just...
...British Prime Minister [Harold Wilson] had come to Rhodesia to try, somehow, to prevent the white-supremacist colonial regime of Ian Smith from seizing independence ... The United Nations had urged sanctions to starve the settlers out ... And Wilson himself had talked grimly of the 'bloodbath' that might follow a unilateral declaration of independence ... In his talks with Smith last month in London, it had become painfully clear that neither side would make any meaningful compromise on the fundamental issue. The British would give Rhodesia its freedom only on condition that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks be guaranteed control...