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Is Rwanda the Victim in a Modern Day Salem Witch Trial?

Georgianne Nienaber: Let’s offer the thesis that public opinion has been railroaded with respect to Rwanda amid accusations that it is supplying aid to a newly minted and highly successful rebel army in eastern Congo.

Dian Fossey Suspected Murderer Acquitted

By Georgianne Nienaber

Perhaps it is the ghost of Dian Fossey that will generate interest in a rigorous search for the truth. Perhaps outrage at the death of one will put the deaths of 3000 at the Twin Towers, 800,000 in Rwanda and six million in Congo into perspective.

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Steve Hochstadt: The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s finally made an issue of fathering. If women were going to get out of the house and into the workplace, men had to change their roles, too.

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Is Rwanda the Victim in a Modern Day Salem Witch Trial?

Dian Fossey Suspected Murderer Acquitted

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