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Discuss “Paul Rusesabagina explains Hotel Rwanda”

Like a little teapot, Paul Rusesabagina is short and stout. When he walked onto the Soldiers and Sailors stage last Wednesday, an outsider might have thought the audience was applauding a Hall of Fame ex-quarterback and not the man best described as a modern-day Oskar Schindler.

Rusesabagina was brought to the University of Pittsburgh campus by groups united in combating global inequality: the Hillel Jewish University Center, the Black Action Society, Amnesty International, the African Student Organization, and the Ford Institute for Human Protection.

Rusesabagina (pronounced roo-sess-ah-bog-ee-nah) has gained notoriety for escaping a situation that, when it was occurring, hardly received any attention at all. In the spring of 1994, nearly...

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Comment 1. dstandiford
Mar 30, 2006 at 02:07 PM

You are an idiot. Genocide should not be "entertainment".

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