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Dallaire and Barker denied that Kofi Annan, the current U.N. secretary general who headed the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations, got off too easily for his failure to act in the Rwandan crisis. Dallaire said Boutros Boutros-Ghali, secretary general at the time, deserved more blame than he received...
Believers too, especially in the university setting, must also do a better job of deciding how much of their religion is premised on historical assumptions and how much on pure faith. Religion based on blame and accusations that purport to be truthful have real-world consequences. No one should be expected to bear those consequences without seeking to have the accusations tested by the tools of the academy. Yet many resist such testing, regarding it as disrespectful of religious beliefs. TV commentators Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly have labeled criticism of the historical accuracy of the Gibson...
...party celebrating the advent of power, and villagers are lining up to buy televisions. (A man confides that he wants to divorce his wife because he has fallen in love with a singer on TV.) Elsewhere in the north, electrical power is still intermittent, and many Iraqis blame the Coalition Provisional Authority. It's perhaps a hopeful sign that some Iraqis view this as a business opportunity. In Baqubah businessman Sadi Nuri, 36, has set up two large generators, from which he sells power to 200 homes in his neighborhood for a minimum of $2 a month per customer...
...what was in the sports bag, most Spaniards instinctively fingered ETA, which has killed more than 800 people in a campaign of terror spanning four decades against the Spanish state. Just hours after the attacks, Acebes was adamant that there was "no cause for doubt" that ETA was to blame. Government officials and members of the ruling Popular Party (PP) pointed to what they said were hallmarks of ETA involvement: the bombings took place just three days before Sunday's general election, which ETA had vowed to disrupt; it had targeted the railway system before; and only last month Spanish...
...clever public-service ads, but antiobesity activists calling for tough government action were not amused. Nor were they pleased by Republicans in the House who chose this week to push through the so-called cheeseburger bill, which protects fast-food restaurants from getting sued by obese Americans who blame the outlets' high-caloric fare for making them fat. --By Sora Song