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...logistical snarls had a significant effect on the voters' turnout or their enthusiasm. The night before she went to vote, Gladys Mswele, 60, a farmer in the hilly country north of Durban, did not sleep well. "I was thinking about this all night," she said, as she rose before dawn to walk the two miles to the main road, where she patiently waited for transport to her polling place. "This is our day." Seven hours later, she made her X next to the party of her choice. Voting, she said, as she rested after the long journey home, "is hard...
Tian Zhuangzhuang's film opens in 1953, with the marriage of lovely Chen Shujuan (Lu Liping), a schoolteacher, and gentle Lin Shaolong (Pu Quanxin), a librarian. The two believe they have much to celebrate: their warm love, to be sure, but also the dawn of a true People's Republic. Their political ardor can't last; what begins in naive hope is crushed against the great wall of Maoist reality...
...while the epiphany at the film's end, as Windborn recognizes, is more rough sketch than any full rendering of a new dawn of wholeness (that sea, that night, that survey form land's ending of life's ending) these cliches perhaps more pointer to epiphany than believable rendering of it--I fell Collard's intent, even though never quite reached, makes necessary a rather more generous critique of "Savage Nights" that Winborn's eventual and, as I read him regretful dismissal...
Thirty minutes before dawn last Wednesday, Hutu members of the presidential guard kicked in the door of a church just east of Rwanda's capital city of Kigali. Instantly, they opened fire with semiautomatic weapons and tossed in grenades. Then, according to Belgian news reports, they set upon the Tutsi parishioners who were still alive with knives, bats and spears. Almost 1,200 civilians were massacred, more than half of them children...
...addition, Mather House delegate Michael P.Beys '94 was accused by Dawn Austin '92-'95 ofharassing and intimidating potential voters whiletabling there (please see photograph, thispage...