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08Jun2000 CONGO: War-wounded crowd Congo hospital in chaotic scenes. 19:30 GMT

By Todd Pitman

For a decade, one of the nastiest and bloodiest wars and humanitarian catastrophes since World War II has pounded one corner of Africa –the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Joseph Conrad, racist or realist? The debate about Conrad and his most famous work, Heart of Darkness, continues to rage. Here’s a piece I wrote on the subject that became the introduction to a new edition of Heart of Darkness published by Vintage Classics.

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

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