Hotel Rwanda shatters complacency, so long as—in the words of Nick Nolte’s UN coronel—we don’t ‘gasp and then turn back to eating dinner’.
Don Cheadle turns in a memorable if unpolished star turn that anchors this survival tale.
That’s precisely what Hotel Rwanda is: a survival tale. A true one, to be sure, and not unlike many that remain unrecorded and unthanked because their own heros perished among the million corpses left behind by this most inexplicable genocide. Continue Reading »
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I could not carry on with life as I know it without the Economist.
No hype. It’s that good. Continue Reading »
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The authors of this compact Cambridge University Press history of Thailand deliver on their promise. This is a vintage CUP product: balanced, full of measured opinion, error-free in typography and layout, sweeping without shallowness.
There is not a better one-volume entrance to this fascinating but lesser-known South East Asian Country. Continue Reading »
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This entry in the Fortress Classics in Biblical Studies series brings to fresh light some classic exemplars of twentieth-century Old Testament criticism, no small contribution in a moment when the discipline’s fast-fragmenting methodologies threaten biblical scholars with amnesia. Continue Reading »
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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance is a worthy challenge to Money magazine for a monthly dose of economic and investing trends, helpful financial tips, and—in KPF‘s case—a kind of populist advocacy for the little guy investor. Continue Reading »
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If you need to keep abreast of financials and business on a monthly basis, Forbes and Fortune are the two conventional choices. Continue Reading »
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First Things editor Richard John Neuhaus is famous for two things. Continue Reading »
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As an insatiable news junky and practicing Christian reader whose work takes me to many countries each year, I recently caved to my wife’s insistence and began to read the World subscription that a relative had given us. Continue Reading »
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A man’s bones ache under the guilt he acknowledges. His heart lies shattered.
That the psalms should present King David as knowing this, indeed, that they should have him say so in the first person is testimony to the enduring, transparent genius of the biblical David. Even the king—reader of Torah, spokesman for justice—’went in to Bathsheba’. Is there anyone, one asks in the shadow of this, who has not had his Bathsheba? Has anyone not known the grating rot of bones, the fearful terror of a heart that’s been crushed? Continue Reading »
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Whether traveling for business or pleasure, you don’t want to waste your time in loud, sweaty departure lounge when for a modest fee the true value of climate control, internet access, healthy nibbling, and comfortable seats are just down the concourse at an airline lounge. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 