History Through the Eyes of a Frightened Child
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"Machuca," which is Chile's submission to this year's Academy Awards, is both sweet and stringent, attuned to the wonders of childhood as well as its cruelty and terror.
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Â· Fears 'merely symptoms of generation gap' Â· Attacks echo past rows over films and books
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Be afraid, kids, be very afraid (but not that afraid), with these old  chillers, whose terror is (mostly) off screen.
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As parents come to terms with the tsunami calamity, children here are sharing stories of survival.
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EuropeÂs genocidal adventures in Africa receive a passionate reckoning in this ambitious documentary based on Adam HochschildÂs best-selling history of the same title.
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Â· State catalogues atrocities during dictatorship  Â· Victims' relatives join president at book launch
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The walk to school for five Palestinian children has become so dangerous they require an escort from Israeli soldiers and police. Jewish settlers living along the path have
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As the people of Beslan struggle with their grief, the schoolhouse where their children died has become a place of echoes and memories.
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JERUSALEM -- The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank," was unveiled yesterday by Israel's Holocaust museum more than 60 years after the teenager vividly described the world crumbling around her as she came of age in a Jewish ghetto.
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As the outer layers of her old, familiar life have been peeled back to expose violence, a young Iraqi girl is no longer sure whom to believe, how to interpret events or even what to be afraid of.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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For most kids, the appearance of the word "Bewusstseinslage" on any kind of test would be reason to shriek in horror. For Matthew Evans, it was cause for joy.
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The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet").  His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them.  On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a "wizard", different in both style and substance from normal people, or "muggles" (i.e. "breeders").  The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of "wizards" living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture).  Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through "Diagon Alley", a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight).
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Susan Faludi was visiting the Historical Societyâs exhibition of photographs and artifacts from the World Trade Center attacks and talking about her work âThe Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America,â out next week from Metropolitan Books.
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KABUL -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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One family's struggle with their son's behavioural problems in mainstream schools.
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Since the shooting in the mosque, I&#39;ve been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well.