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...know much about the science of disease and immunities, but I know enough poetry to recognize that individual human beings are invaded and colonized by foreign bodies, just as individual civilizations are invaded and colonized by foreign bodies. In that sense, colonization might be a natural process, tragic and violent to be sure, but predictable and ordinary as well, and possibly necessary for the advance, however constructive and destructive, of all civilizations...
...looking to their own oral histories, as well as reading between the lines of the journals, to re-interpret what happened. Says Ben Sherman, president of the Western American Indian Chamber in Denver: "The upcoming events portray Clark as the benevolent protector of Indians--that's propagandist baloney." The tragic aftermath: as Governor of the Missouri Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Clark presided over President Thomas Jefferson's land-grab policy, which some historians characterize as a direct cause of "cultural genocide" and "ethnic cleansing...
...must strongly disagree with TIME's characterization of the Philippine troops' assault on the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping gang as a "debacle" [WORLD, June 17]. While the deaths of two of the three hostages are tragic, one, American Gracia Burnham, was able to return home to her children. And that occurred thanks to decisive action by our Philippine allies. Had the Philippine government decided to take a more passive course, all three kidnap victims would ultimately have been killed when they no longer served Abu Sayyaf's political ends. Now the path is open to exterminate what is left of that...
...midst of a general cultural breakdown and a time of growing danger, that God is going to redeem the time." Evangelicals who had felt somehow left behind in secular terms, by a coarse culture and a fear of general moral decay, welcome arguments that even the most tragic events may be evidence of God's larger plan. In fact, you don't have to be religious to be hoping for that as well...
...entire movie, turns in a heart-wrenching portrayal of maternal sacrifice. Water?in the bathtub, in a sullen black canal that oozes past the apartment building, in the rain that falls constantly throughout the film?is omnipresent. The flat itself seems to cry. This is a horror movie more tragic than terrifying...