What? Do you think anyone goes around asking people not to criticize Hitler or Pol Pot on the anniversaries of their birthdays? Or suing radio stations for dishonoring them? Can a society like Russia isolate itself from Democracy forever?
Not far away, a Kyrgyz opposition journalist is assassinated by defenestration.
While we're on political violence and crimes against humanity: How does one go about living around people that tried to kill you? I've read about such experiences in South Africa, Rwanda, the Balkans, Latin America... and it doesn't get any easier to understand with more examples.
Sigh.
Yes, do something about that Taj Mahal high school. I managed to grow up in that "brainy and self-assured city" with a less than palatial high school and somehow did okay. Reading the Times' description of the city, it's funny to think it's the same one my parents live in. They so, so, so wouldn't be able to afford their house--gatehouse-sized by Newton standards--now.
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