In collecting background information for his novel, Pressac travelled to Auschwitz to inform himself in detail about Nazi extermination techniques and was surprised at the lack of physical and documentary evidence.
He informed himself deeply, asked hard questions, pressed for an exit strategy, and emphasized the need to "Afghanize" the war.
While not questioning his opponents' patriotism, he said: "Giuliani could have informed himself by remaining on the Iraq Study Group.
"Anyone... who cared to inform himself could not escape the fact that the deportation trains were rolling".
(This is the movie President Bush requested an urgent screening of in 2001, as a way of informing himself about the region).
MR. MAKGOBA believes Mr. Mbeki to be a "very intellectual person" who is trying to inform himself on a disease that is ravaging his country.
Justice Thomas is a beneficiary of that pay and has a responsibility under federal law to "inform himself" about who the donors are because they have an impact on Mrs. Thomas's personal financial interests.
His drawn-out review of policy in Afghanistan shows Obama in this element: informing himself extensively, relentlessly questioning, challenging assumptions, boring down into the crucial details of the subject, and then doing it all over again.
Holland seems to have confined himself largely to interpreters, learned or otherwise, writing in English, but his efforts to inform himself, arduous as they may have been, were manifestly insufficient.
He wishes, however, that Mr. Mbeki had informed himself in private, fearing that he will be classified "as one of those African leaders who doesn't care about science or technology".
