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Unfortunately, according to a survey by this organization, nearly 40% of American youth do not know what the Holocaust was. A majority cannot correctly answer even one of four simple, basic questions about it. One can only hope Spielberg's film kindles interest in educating our children about the worst crime in modern history. Other recent surveys by the American Jewish Committee show that one-third of the American people find it ''possible'' the Holocaust never took place. Our surveys in France and Britain, by contrast, show that such potential ''Holocaust deniers'' make up only 6% of the French population...
...glibly glowing comment about a Henry James novel referenced in “The Line of Beauty,” Hollinghurst is quick to remember The Master’s insufferable minor characters.With all these small scenes of confusion and clarification, Hollinghurst’s firm denial of a basic transatlantic divide between American and British approaches to literature may come as a surprise. There is no such thing as a British writing style that differs systemically from American counterparts, he argues. Oddly, though, he finds no contradiction in referring to “gay literature” and discussing...
...Stein says it was always obvious that the president would nominate a conservative. There are three basic types of persons he could have nominated-a "stealth candidate," such as Harriet Miers, who has little record; a thoughtful and open-minded conservative; or a doctrinaire or "instrumental" conservative who has an agenda to enact. "We are going to have a conservative on the court-that's a given-so between those three choices I would much prefer having someone who is intelligent, open-minded and doesn't approach things knowing the result they want to come away with." Concludes Stein...
...surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care as the most basic human right and do whatever it takes to deliver...
...region last December. “People don’t know that over 80,000 people have died, that over 70,000 people are injured, that children are being operated on without anesthesia, that people don’t have food and shelter and other such basic amenities,” Farid said. Farid and others handed out black bandanas last Thursday to raise awareness. Jyothi L. Ramakrishnan ’06 said she thinks the difference in media coverage was due to Pakistan’s location and political status. “Because the earthquake...