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...Violence I write in response to "a Philippine Shame" [Nov. 27]. The Philippine government is determined to end unexplained killings and bring all those responsible to answer for their crimes. Regrettably, political violence is a tragic legacy left to our people by decades of conflict and misrule. It is also unfortunately true that one of the more gruesome of these legacies is that bequeathed by the armed left whose deadly purges and assassinations are well documented. Not surprisingly, the areas where the armed left have carried out their violence are the same areas where we now see the most unexplained...
...hero or a tragic figure? People should not be categorized. These men, in their own way, lived as best as they could. And I think that, in the film, Clint gave each a breath of life. People like that get destroyed. That...
...environment? I don't want to talk politics, but I think that everybody who sees it will understand what this film is trying to say. This film is not a display of patriotism, it is not an ode to war, and it does not treat the Japanese as tragic victims. It is a testimony to what...
...long-term consequences are insidious as well as tragic and even relate to the ability of the U.S. to prevail against the jihadists. Not only does malaria sap worker productivity and scare away business investment, but it also, paradoxically, increases the rate of population growth. Instead of having two or three children, couples in a malarial region often choose to have six or seven--unsure how many will survive...
...century ago, the ideology took on a militant edge following Arab independence after World War II. Partly as a reaction to Israel's defeat of the Arabs in the 1948 war, Arab nationalism promoted militaristic societies led by warrior leaders who espoused dreams of victory and grandeur. The tragic result has been decades of tyranny, conflict and stagnation for millions of Arabs rather than the blossoming of an Arab renaissance. Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser became Arab nationalism's first populist leader with his nationalization of the Suez Canal. But a decade later, he blundered the Arabs into the devastating...