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NEWS
The Pendulum
Power will discuss ‘A Problem from Hell’
Alyse Knorr
Reporter
Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize win
ning journalist and author of “A Problem
From Hell: America and the Age of
Genocide,” will speak about U.S. foreign
policy toward genocide at 7:30 p.m.
Monday in McCrary Theatre.
Many Elon students will be attending
Power’s lecture since it relates to the fresh
man required reading for this year, “Escape
From Slavery,” Francis Bok’s account of his
flight from slavery in Sudan, and his
September speech at Elon. The talk further
relates to Joyce Leader’s talk about the
U.S.’s policies toward genocide in Rwanda,
“The Origins of Rwandan Genocide.”
“We’ve been hearing stuff about genocide
all year and Power is an expert on that,”
explained Erin Barnett, freshman.
Admission to Power’s dis
cussion, “The Age of
Genocide,” is by ticket only
and is sponsored by the
Liberal Arts Forum and
General Studies. Tickets for
Power’s discussion can be
obtained for $12 or free with
Elon ID. Reserve tickets by
calling the Elon Box Office at
ext. 5610, or pick up tickets
at the Box Office from 12:30-
5:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
“... The U.S. government
knew enough about the genocide early on to
save lives, but passed up countless opportu
nities to intervene,” Power wrote in a 2001
article entitled “Bystanders to Genocide” in
The Atlantic Monthly.
"... Whatever (U.S. officials’) convic
Samantha Power
Photo courtesy of
Harvard University
tions about ‘never again,’ many
of them did sit around, and most
certainly did allow genocide to
happen,” she continued.
Power, an Irish-born,Yale and
Harvard Law' graduate, has
reported for U.S. News and
World Report, The Economist,
2nd The Boston Globe. Her arti
cles have been featured in well-
known circulations such as The
New Yorker, The Atlantic
Monthly and Time Magazine.
Power spent 1993 to 1996
investigating the Yugoslavian
wars, and worked with the International
Crisis Group in Bosnia as a political analyst
in 1996.
She later served as the executive director
of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
of Harvard from 1998 to 2002.
Power’s book, “A Problem From Hell^
America and the Age of Genocide,
her the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Genet ^
Nonfiction, the Council on j
Relations’ Arthur Ross Prize for the
book in U.S. foreign policy and the Natio*’
Book Critics Circle Award. j
In this work. “Power seeks to show
American policy makers have
turned a blind eye to massacres,
Jacob Heilbrun of the Los Angeles
Laura Secor, in a book review
New York Times, agrees that Power ^
informative work “doubles as a prosecuto
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Man glued to toilet seat, sues store
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Colorado man who had a panic attack when he found he was
glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot restroom has sued the home improvement giant for
negligence, saying staff ignored his plight. Retired electrical engineer Bob Dougherty, 57,
said on Thursday he was stuck in the stall with his pants down for about 20 minutes and
that two years after the 2003 incident he was suffering from post-traumatic stress, which
has triggered diabetes and heart complications. “I have these nightmares every night where
I am locked in this dark room, with no windows, no doors, no fresh air, no route for escape.
I wake up in these cold sweats,” Dougherty said. Spokesmen for Home Depot Inc. could
not immediately be reached for comment. Dougherty said in a lawsuit filed last week in
Boulder, Colorado, that he thought he was having a heart attack when he realized his but
tocks and legs were stuck to the toilet seat in the Home Depot restroom in Louisville, Colo.
He explained his plight to an employee who came into the restroom but other Home Depot
staffers thought it was a hoax and he had to wait until someone else came in to again sum
mon help. Dougherty is claiming unspecified damages for help with medical and psychi
atric bills, for humiliation and for the diabetes he said he has developed as a result of the
stress. “Home Depot not only ignored my plight, they refused my plight,” he said.
Dougherty said he suspected the glue had been placed there as a prank by three teens seen
earlier in the store.
New reality show with gorillas
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Big Brother is about to become monkey business. Inspired by the tel
evision reality show, Czech public radio and television broadcasters began airing a new
show Nov. 7 that will follow the lives of four gorillas living together at the Prague Zoo. The
show, to be called Odhaleni (Discovery), will see the primates — one male, two females
and one baby — battle it out for a grand prize of 12 melons, a delicacy for gorillas. “What
the gorillas do is up to them,” said Prague Zoo gorilla trainer Marek Zdansky. Czech
Television will set up 15 cameras to monitor the gorillas, and viewers and listeners of the
show will be able to vote via phone messages (SMS) for their favorite contestant. Proceeds
from the show will go to helping save the wild gorilla population in-Africa, organizers
Snail mail: postcard lands 50 years later
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish postcard bearing a lottery number arrived 50
after being sent to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland. The card
employee at the Avallegarden retirement home in Klintehamn was mailed by a j
Finspang, some 90 miles away on the Swedish mainland. Sent in October 1955, it
last month. “Now and again a letter that has gone astray like this surfaces somewhere •••
It IS very unusual,” Swedish Post Office spokesman Markus Trautmann said Monday-
postcard included the number of a lottery ticket that the two women bought together,
paper newspaper Gotlands Allehanda reported. It was not known if they won.
Three die playing catch with grenade
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - A hand grenade being used instead of a ball in a
of catch exploded early on Saturday killing three youths in this Bosnian town, ® .ja,
news agencies said. Two youths, ages 19 and 20, one of them from neighboring -j,
were killed instantly while a 20-year-old woman died on her way to hospital, police
Her sister was slightly injured but two other youths suffered serious injuries. The
occurred at 2:00 a.m. in the western town of Novi Grad at a place in the town
quented by youngsters. Police said an inquiry was under way and declined further
ment. It was not clear why the grenade exploded. ONASA news agency quoted js
as saying the youths tossed the hand grenade to each other before it exploded in the n
of one of them. Bosnia is awash with illegal weapons left over from the 1992-95 ^
tragic incidents are frequent despite several successful campaigns by intemationa
keepers and police to get people to hand over illegal weapons.
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