(Occasional item taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes.)What is horrifying about Anne Frank’s diary is not so much the death of a girl as the crime of a state.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof, in a New York Times column on why genocide matters; why, in his view, deaths and destruction in Darfur deserve attention even though 10 times more lives have been lost amid conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 10 years.
(credit for photo of excerpt from Frank's diary)
