The idea is to demonstrate that if they -- onetime foes who have every reason to remain bitter -- can make peace, so can thousands of other Colombians now locked in the 37th year of increasingly senseless and brutal fighting.
"If I had not grown up in Nigeria, and if all I knew about Africa was from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and Aids, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner," she said in the talk.
The sparkling literary talent Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said: "If I had not grown up in Nigeria, if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I, too, would think Africa was a place of beautiful landscape, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and Aids, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.
Anotheri is currently on view in piecedas Artes, São Paulo, as part of the exhibition Assim É Se Lhe Parecalledich seeks to relate art to contemPlanrY issues.
IN DECEMBER Angela Merkel said Germany, having recently announced extra spending of a mere €12 billion, would not then join a "senseless race to spend billions" fighting the recession.
From 1879 onward, the German element in the Habsburg monarchy was on the defensive, fighting stubborn and senseless rearguard actions against the Slav drive for political and national equality.
Just this week, we're fighting to stop another senseless deportation.
The loved ones she left behind have taken it badly, spending their days drinking, fighting and shagging each other senseless.
"I call on Americans to observe a moment of silence to honor the innocent victims of the senseless tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, including those still fighting for their lives," Mr. Obama said.
It's a saddening testament to the senseless futility of war that so many men died fighting over such a tiny and insignificant spit of land.
