Ignoring international genocide
By GINA ROSEMELLIA | Nov. 8, 2006In high school, all of my history teachers told me that had it not been for crippling international diffidence, the Holocaust could have been prevented.
In high school, all of my history teachers told me that had it not been for crippling international diffidence, the Holocaust could have been prevented.
As North Korea agrees to nuclear talks at some point in the future, reasonable people everywhere buck up and ask, "Why can't we all just get along?"1.
Remember the 1970's group Platinum Weird, whose long-lost effort "Make Believe" fell to shambles when band member Erin Grace disappeared without warning, leaving member Dave Stewart to scrape together and release the unfinished material with Grace a painful 32 years later?Neither do we.
It may be hard for some students to take a news story seriously when it is about a guy named Bucky who broke out of the clink using a can opener.
The phrase, "I'm a woman trapped inside a man's body," provokes many reactions from people, most commonly an uncomfortable giggle.A Batavia high school science teacher has begun the process of gender reassignment.
Smuggling a corpse across state lines really shows just how far the Hoover family will go to make it to an out-of-state beauty pageant.
When someone challenges you to a white-off, don't panic. They aren't calling your racial identity into question.
In a country where a woman can have her hands cut off for wearing nail polish, opening a beauty school seems unthinkable.
Anyone with a little common sense knows that putting a baby in a shopping bag, stuffing it under a bed, and leaving it there all night is a bad idea."Tsotsi," which translates as "thug" in South African slang, is a film that examines the reckless behavior of the title character as he fumbles to take care of a baby that he has mistakenly kidnapped during a car hijacking.Director Gavin Hood ("A Reasonable Man") adapted the film from a book written by Athol Fugard, a playwright who is famous for his ability to delve into the psychology of average people.Much like the film "City of God," "Tsotsi" follows a group of small-time hoods that have been affected by circumstances totally out of their control.
"American Dreamz" is a smart satire that examines the current face of American pop culture from the vantage point of an "American Idol"-type television show.