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...wide variety of inputs—including excerpts from music pieces, recorded speeches, and even live narration with a series of danced vignettes that loosely traced the history of genocide from the Holocaust to Rwanda to, literally, today’s news. Impassioned solos that explored large-scale rape, the search for forensic evidence of genocide, and the emotional experience of the judge who presided over the Nuremberg trials were subtle reminders of the range of personal experiences of those touched by genocide. This range of emotional response was extended when the narrator, dancer Peter DiMuro, turned to the audience...
...Bobbitts Before their little spat made headlines, John and Lorena Bobbitt were just another unglamorous couple with a lot to work out. But on a June night -- after, Lorena later claimed, John had raped her -- she cut off his penis. The organ was surgically reattached, and all's well that ends in media bewitchment: John, acquitted of the rape, appears as a jovial guest on the Howard Stern Show, while Lorena, whose case is still pending, has become something of a feminist folk hero...
...topics off limits for you? This is ridiculous and nonsensical because [in my act] I trivialize rape and the Holocaust, but the only thing I can think of that really bums me out is jokes about fat women. That said, if there's a joke out there about any topic that's funny, it's worth...
...will die." Not a chance. Each activity has taught her something new, and she has been able to connect the dots between them. Once every month she's on call at the Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention (SAVI) program, ready to speed to the side of a rape or abuse victim before the professionals arrive. Leveraging her training for SAVI, she created a program on child abuse at the Family Center in Manhattan for grandmothers raising grandchildren alone...
...health, you will meet some of these defenders, models of not just charity but also ingenuity, nerve, patience and faith. There is the doctor building clinics in Rwanda, the motorcycle riders carrying medicines across roadless stretches of Uganda, the survivor of the refugee camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar...