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...those factors aside, Rwanda today can be understood only through the harsh prism of the genocide that ravaged it in 1994. That bloodbath, fueled by an incendiary combination of misguided Belgian colonial policy, divisive domestic politics, ethnic stereotyping and tragic French foreign policy, took the lives of 800,000 of the minority Tutsi. The genocide, and the concurrent civil war during which the Tutsi minority took control of the country, devastated the infrastructure and exterminated the professional class. There were fewer than a dozen doctors within Rwanda's borders in 1997, and no more than 100 nurses. Hospitals were destroyed...
Some students develop relationships with proctors or non-resident advisers that are of enormous value to them throughout their Harvard years and beyond. Others tell tragic tales of advisers who become part of their problems rather than helping solve them. Nearly everyone has a story to tell...
...half a decade later, No Doubt and Korn are still on top of their games. No Doubt continued to feed off of the success of Tragic Kingdom, releasing nominally successful singles like "Excuse Me Mister" and "Sunday Morning." Who knew that a little red dress and some fruit could go so far? The recently released Return of Saturn boasts two wildly successful singles already, namely "New" and "Ex-Girlfriend." The prolific nay-sayer Korn has released three albums since their self-titled debut, with the recent Issues topping charts with the single "Falling Away from...
...heroes shouldn't have to stand alone. Besides the film's questionable morals and its self-contradicting characters, it has some wildly unbelievable subplots. For instance, when Hodges goes to Yemen he sees a skinny, one-legged girl on one of those tragic-looking hand-carved crutches. She is adorable, and a perfect figure to represent the suffering Childers caused. That is, the first time we see her. She hobbles around incessantly, silently leading Hodges around. He thinks about her on his trip back. We get another flashback later on and by this point she has gone from a horrifying...
...even a little voyeuristic to conjure up such old evils as the "lynching bees"? I have talked to Israelis who do not want to hear another word about the Holocaust. Some American blacks are, in the same way, impatient with those who dwell on the past. They understand that tragic memory, while sometimes instructive, can also be destructive and transfixing. Surely Americans - a lucky and headlong and creatively forgetful people in many ways - live in a happier village than do, for example, memory-obsessed Bosnians, Serbs, Croats and Kosovars...