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...loves its cutting-edge architecture. And the museum fell along the border between the eastern and western parts of the city, suggesting that it might be part of one of the many deconstructionist paradises that sprang up on land formerly occupied by the Berlin Wall. Instead, I found a stark block of residential towers and an overgrown park set well off Friedrichstrasse, the thoroughfare where Checkpoint Charlie used to stand. The highly experimental architecture of the museum, which opened in 2001, was all the more startling for its failure to conform to its location, a disharmony that filled me with...
...could ever bring all Rwanda's killers to justice. The stark facts of genocide - more than 800,000 killed, most with farm tools - suggest tens of thousands of murderers at least. But the ICTR fugitives were supposed to be different. They are not just murderers, ICTR prosecutors allege, but mass-murder masterminds: the former army officers and government officials who built a genocidal regime. "There cannot be true unity and reconciliation in Rwanda unless the fugitives, most of whom are the actual planners of the genocide, are brought to book," says Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama...
...invasion, more than 2.5 million Iraqis have left for neighboring countries, while 2.2 million have been forcibly displaced within Iraq-too poor to escape the country or blocked from transitioning through more peaceful provinces, which in recent months have erected checkpoints to keep them out. To put it in stark historical terms: The war has created the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East since the displacement of the Palestinians...
...rural states may get .05% less of the total than they did before. That's something, but a relatively small accomplishment for a bill that was so hard fought in Congress and was billed as a major achievement. "You are correct that it is not as stark as it might have looked," concedes a Senate aide. "But this bill does lower the minimum. It does go down." Notes the aide: "We've had bills in a couple of Congresses now to try to change the formula. The fact that it's taken us since 2004 to come to an agreement...
...Peer Advising Fellows were instructed to advise freshmen to pick classes assuming the current Core curriculum will be in place for the remainder of their time at Harvard, on the hope that their Core classes will be grandfathered into the new program. These sad developments are a stark and disheartening reminder of just how little enthusiasm or optimism Faculty, students, and administrators have that the new General Education curriculum will be a substantive change. By not familiarizing the incoming freshman class with Gen Ed as well as the Core, Harvard has betrayed its discomfort and confusion with the new program...