No pity for Sarajevo

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The compassion expressed by Susan Sontag and other intellectuals for the situation in Sarajevo is misplaced, because the people there must be strong enough to shape their own reality. The Bosnian people should resist the outside world's efforts to characterize Sarajevo as a victim society. Rather than focusing on unhappiness in Sarajevo, intellectuals instead should confront the evil oppressive forces there that have caused the misery and degraded all of European society.

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Ismail Merchant

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Film producer and cookbook author Ismail Merchant believes that cuisines are not confined by national boundaries and that new cuisines can be created by combining different cultures. In the dishes he has developed, he draws on both his experiences growing up in India and the Western influences he has had since then. He finds dal to be the most satisfying food and notes that there are over 200 varieties. Cooking is a combination of visual and performing arts.

Appreciation, Cooks, Cookery, Indian, Indian cooking, Merchant, Ismail

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People and ideas: working at the human level

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French director Marcel Ophuls 1995 film Veillees d'armes, or The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime, is a documentary about life in Sarajevo, Bosnia, after years of wartime. He believes the Serbs' aggression is similar to Hitler's before World War II.He admires the journalists in Sarajevo who have tried to inform the public, but believes the television coverage and manipulation of images often distorts the reality of the situation.

Ophuls, Marcel

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