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...your blogs," he said. "I learned a lot from you about who Rorschach is." Crudup, whose Doctor Manhattan gained his powers after being locked inside a test chamber during a nuclear-physics experiment, said he prepared for the role by "changing my molecules, stuff that they don't teach you at drama school...
...rate. We actually had dinner with a very fine Minister of Education who is genuinely committed to education for all children, but particularly for girls. Listening to him describe not only the barriers presented by the lack of women teachers--and you've got to have women teachers to teach girls in a traditional Islamic society--but also the fact that they have to produce enough schools so that girls don't have to travel a significant distance, because in that traditional society, for a girl to travel alone or even in groups is unacceptable. It really just gave...
...rate. We actually had dinner with a very fine Minister of Education who is genuinely committed to education for all children, but particularly for girls. Listening to him describe not only the barriers presented by the lack of women teachers - and you've got to have women teachers to teach girls in a traditional Islamic society - but also, the fact that they have to produce enough schools so that girls don't have to travel a significant distance. Because in that traditional society for a girl to travel alone or even in groups is unacceptable. It really just gave...
...instead of writing off the relatively new judicial and diplomatic tool of international justice, skeptics should heed the three important lessons that recent cases can teach. First, while international courts may be the ones that issue the initial indictments and arrest warrants, it is the local authorities themselves - as we have seen in Serbia, Chile and Liberia and will eventually see in Sudan - who need to be convinced that the benefits of ridding their societies of global villains exceed the costs. Second, that will is more likely to be created by concentrated regional action than by generic international pressure...
...Fairley, a white man with Aboriginal ways, represents a primitive immigrant's worst confusion: the man in the right skin but the wrong tribe. Like the Wild Boy of Borneo, he is a reminder of instincts caged but not tamed by civilization. That such a creature has much to teach can be even more upsetting. So it is not the natives who are restless. Fairley, the harmless handyman of the good-hearted family that shelters him, stirs paranoia among the ignorant and the intolerant. Like the branches of their clans who thrived on slave labor in the American South, these...