Rwanda

So much misery, so little time So much misery, so little time

Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it.
  • Movies not to miss: "Munyurangabo"

    An American indie filmmaker's amazing Rwandan odyssey. Plus: Blame Canada! (For the virus eating your brain.)
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    "The Host" rises up from American slime to destroy the Korean family! It must be destroyed! Plus: A new film on credit card debt will make you weep.
  • Lost in America

    It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
  • Conversations with mass murderers

    In "Machete Season," 10 Hutu men recall how they enjoyed slaughtering their neighbors with machetes and clubs -- and six years after the Rwanda genocide, feel no guilt.
  • "Not on my watch"

    While the world commemorated the millions of victims of the Nazis on Thursday, Congress squandered an opportunity to address the ongoing genocide in Darfur.
  • Global gorilla

    Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face.
  • Sex and drugs in hell

    The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J
  • "A blink of an eye, and a million killed"

    Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide.
  • Millions die, Bush is silent

    The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
  • Bush to Saddam: Get out of Dodge

    In a terse speech to the nation and the world, the president stopped just short of a declaration of war.
  • Ordinary people, extraordinary evil

    What kind of person can attack, mutilate and kill a total stranger or even a neighbor? A scholar talks about the dark potential in all of us.
  • My neighbor, the war criminal

    An author who followed the lives of survivors in Rwanda and Bosnia talks about how people and nations learn to go on after they've suffered the unthinkable.
  • Elmore Leonard's "Pagan Babies" [read by Steve Buscemi]

    A fast-paced crime novel about a supposed priest who flees war-torn Rwanda to find himself pursued by a cigarette smuggler.
  • "Pagan Babies" by Elmore Leonard

    In his latest black-comic thriller, the peerless crime novelist takes his wisecracking swindlers from post-massacre Rwanda to downtown Detroit.
  • Flesh and blood and DNA

    A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots.
  • Congo needs help, not Western posturing

    A feud between Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright shadows what will likely be useless U.N. aid to war-torn Central Africa.
  • James Nachtwey's "Inferno"

    Pictures from an exhibition -- in hell.
  • Is there a connection between AIDS and circumcision?

    Researchers claim decade-old evidence has been ignored.
  • A conversation with Elie Wiesel

    The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi.
  • Newsreal: The graveyards of hope

    Why has it taken us so long to believe that the new "great hope" of Africa may have been responsible for terrible massacres?
  • Media Circus - Russian tanks invade Tokyo! See page C-32

    American media are running less and less foreign news.

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