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...displaced, injured or killed by Salwa Judum who are not receiving adequate attention. They are being swept aside for the more glamorous (and sometimes deceiving) stories of growth, technology and democratic participation in India. A visible minority is benefiting from India’s economic and political structure; an unseen and unheard majority is bearing the disproportionate burden the social costs associated with these gains...
What Obama advisers hope is that their candidate will soon have the opportunity to introduce himself to voters on his own terms, free from attacks within his own party and the magnifying glasses of the press corps. Media coverage in the past few weeks reached previously unseen levels of absurdity as pundits debated whether it was a sign of elitism that Obama prefers juice to coffee, whether his basketball playing made him seem too ghetto or too rarefied, and whether he should start smoking again in order to relate to Jack and Jill America...
...handsomely photographed against black, fly artfully, abstractly across the screen in a manner that is distinctly at odds with the essential grubbiness of the extant stills and videos of the actual events at the prison. Finally, there are the ghosts - shadowy evanescent figures that are supposed to represent the unseen forces that ordered up the torments inflicted on the Abu Ghraib prisoners. All of this seems to me at odds with the very sordid story Morris is trying to tell. It distracts from, even vitiates, the moral power inherent in the film...
...Ghraib were solely the work of a few low ranking ?rotten apples.? In his interviews with them they largely come off as young, ill-educated, and very suggestible - almost as premoral as children - and he is not without a certain human sympathy for them. Their unseen higher-ups wanted intelligence (particularly about Saddam?s whereabouts) and did nothing to discourage any behavior that would degrade and terrify their prisoners into supplying that information. That most of them had no connection with Iraq?s dark side was either not clear or of no consequence to the upper ranks; they...
...comics in your English classes, and you don’t learn the secret origins of Iron Man in Chemistry.Luckily, Harvard students have a rare set of resources at their disposal.In and around the Harvard campus, there are four treasure troves of comic books, unique to the area and unseen by most Harvard students. And behind them lie four decades’ worth of history, mystery, and rivalry.THE INEXPLICABLE PILEThe most puzzling of Harvard’s comic book resources is paradoxically the easiest for students to access. It’s free to anyone with a Harvard...