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...which televised media presents the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a series of violent political confrontations, Orna Ben-Dor’s documentary “Once Widowed, Twice Bereaved” offers a more nuanced portrait of those most affected by the struggle...
...their home country and know that the U.S. will support reformists’ efforts. The Iraqi elections have undoubtedly heartened the Lebanese demonstrators and increased pressure on the regions’ autocratic regimes. Mubarak’s sudden change of heart is not due to a case of violent mood swings. The Kyrgyzstan revolution has sent a clear message to the motley collection of anachronistic despots that rule Central Asia’s ’Stans. In Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev has reacted with fear-fueled anger and closed the border to Kyrgyzstan, but he will find it difficult...
...heal the sick. The rotary lawn mower doesn't get stuck on twigs. The VCR makes it possible for working people who are not insomniacs to look at movies that are shown only at 3 a.m. Does anyone remember that you once had to bend over and give a violent turn to a hand crank before a car would start...
...long after six-year-old Brother Roy accidentally killed his baby sister with a shotgun, Yeager's father sat the boys down and said simply, "I want to show you how to safely handle firearms." This matter-of-factness fits right in with the airman's cocky stoicism. Violent death may be inevitable, but problem solving goes on until the moment of impact. There is also a sixth sense of machinery that Yeager calls his "knowledgeable feel," his love of engines and valves "and all those mechanical gadgets that make most people yawn." Time and again this supersonic...
...come forward. Victim-blaming is frighteningly prevalent—why didn’t you say “no” more clearly? Why didn’t you push back? Why did you have anything to drink? When someone is robbed, or is the victim of another violent crime, our first thoughts are not, “Are they for real?” How is it that only for the most prevalent, violent crime—sexual violence—that we create these undue burdens for survivors to prove that their accusation is legitimate, or that...