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Excellent piece that looks both at the hopes that Rwanda could be transformed economically into a trade and tech hub for east Africa, and fears that putting stability over freedom could trample human rights and make other ethnic conflict possible
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Commentary on media coverage of VaTech shootings versus Iraq car bombings. Unfortunately, Iraq bombings are getting short shrift because we’re no longer surprised by that sort of violence, while university shootings still have capacity to generate shock a
April 20th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
VTech vs Iraq is one sad comparison. Another is VTech versus the thousands of inner city deaths in the USA. As you say, we’re “used to” those –well, some of us aren’t, but the media certainly are. How inexpressibly awful.