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...organize forgiveness and you can't force someone to forgive. Microwave-oven forgiveness - where you just pop something in and bing! - that will never last." Just take a look at the South African experience. The trc, a courtlike body open to victims and perpetrators of apartheid-era violence, held public hearings for more than two years in the mid-1990s. Intended as a compromise between a war-crimes trial and national "amnesia," the Commission, led by South Africa's confessor in chief Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offered possible amnesty for perpetrators willing to divulge all they knew, and dignity and reparations...
...Kansas tenant farmer, Parks was working as a railway-car waiter in the 1930s when he picked up a magazine left by a passenger and had his first look at images of the Depression-era U.S. made by Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers. Within a few years, he had bought a camera and started making portraits. By 1942 he was in Washington as an FSA photographer. On his first day there, Parks was refused service at a clothing store, theater and restaurant because he was black. He channeled his anger into his first famous photograph, made...
...Kurdish meal that includes several kinds of breads, pomegranate-infused rice and heaping plates of lamb. The ambassador blushes when the President likens him to the British viceroys of Iraq's past. But he beams as Talabani talks about how Iraqi Kurdistan is prospering in the post-Saddam era. "See," Talabani says to a guest, "occupation is good." After an awkward pause, Khalilzad corrects him. "Liberation, Mr. President," he says. "I think you mean liberation." It says something about the magnitude of Khalilzad's task that even America's friends don't get it right the first time...
...offered at Harvard in an area of American history perhaps even more central, the Civil War. I was stunned to learn that the only course offered (aside from a limited enrollment seminar that seems to be scheduled only sporadically) is not a course on the Civil War era, per se, but rather one that deals with how the war has been memorialized and represented in popular culture. This might be a useful enough supplementary course (though, judging only by the listed syllabus, this version seems a bit thin and intellectually lightweight), but it certainly can’t substitute...
Alas, just as no one remembers the shitty stories published in the same era as “Crime and Punishment,” so will the detritus of our age—I’m looking at you, “Joey”—be lost to time...