Literature Humanities Rwanda International Issues Dissecting Rwandan criticism of UN report on Congo genocide I've received some angry emails and comments about the posting on the UN mapping report. Since then, the Rwandan and Congolese governments have responded to the allegations, as well. Several of these points merit reflection. Skip to next paragraph Recent posts Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Some general points: 1. (Read the entire pdf report here, in French.) 2. To the concrete points made in Rwanda's rebuttal, which can be read here: The report was leaked to distract from allegations that UN peacekeepers did nothing to prevent an incident of mass rape in Walikale. This is unlikely. It is immoral for the UN, a body that failed to act during the 1994 genocide and then managed the refugee camps that hosted refugees and genocidaires alike in the Congo, to accuse the Rwandan army of genocide. The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of Africa bloggers.
Partially Examined Life Ep.52: Saussure/Levi-Strauss/Derrida Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:47:06 — 98.1MB) On Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics (1916) (Part I and Part II, Ch. 4), Claude Levi-Strauss’s “The Structural Study of Myth” (1955), and Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (1966). What is language? What is the relation between language and reality? Saussure argued that a language at a given time has a structure, where you can only really understand the meaning (or “value”) of a word by contrasting it with other words. Structuralists like Levi-Strauss generalized this to all of culture, and Derrida, while rejecting the structuralist project, takes the notion of “difference” between words to uproot all meaning from any non-linguistic reality. End song: “Slipped into Words,” written and recorded by Mark in 1991, released on The MayTricks, which you can freely download in full. If you enjoy the episode, please donate at least $1: by
Les Misérables Les Misérables (/leɪ ˈmɪzərɑːb/ or /leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: [le mizeˈʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz /leɪ ˈmɪz/) is a sung-through musical based on the novel of the same name by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his quest for redemption after serving nineteen years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving sister's child. The Broadway production opened 12 March 1987 and ran until 18 May 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. The etching by Émile Bayard that served as the model for the musical's emblem. In Bagne prison in Toulon, France, in 1815, the prisoners work at hard labour ("Work Song"). At a convent, Valjean awaits his death, having nothing left to live for.