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Breathtakingly outrageous and sad.

Des Forges once taught at my university, and her husband still teaches here, and she lived nearby.

She is a strong figure in all the literature that comes across my desk these days.

by Upstate NY on Mon Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:11:11 AM EST
I'd never heard of Des Forges before coming across "Leave None to Tell the Story," but after it, I noted her name everywhere. Evidently, she is central to our understanding of what happened there.

I wish I could fire off an email to thank her for that.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Mon Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:33:06 AM EST
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