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...There is little hope of Mugabe and his Zimbabwean African National Union (Patriotic Front) (Zanu-PF) party retaining power by legitimate means. Unemployment is at 80%, inflation an absurd 100,000% and life expectancy has plunged into the mid-30s. After 28 years of one-man and one-party rule, the results of the March 29 general election showed most Zimbabweans were unconvinced by Zanu-PF claims that Zimbabwe's economic misfortunes were not the result of state incompetence and corruption, but rather a Western imperial plot to impoverish, and eventually recolonize, Zimbabwe...
...regime could hardly have been surprised that it lost the vote - Zimbabwe is a country with 80% unemployoment, 100,000% inflation and life expectancy in the mid 30s. But with a month to come to terms with that idea, it had time to gather its forces for a counterattack...
...can’t be a 27 year old ‘rapper’ just breaking in.” His sentiments are echoed in “Guarantees,” where he states his deepest fear: someone might “kill me in my 30s in the name of progress.” Unfortunately, the brilliant line is forgotten as the song collapses into an unforgivably tacky conclusion, “The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for,” a line that stands out awkwardly for its dowdiness...
...Mutallip was killed by police "because he was too powerful, too influential," claims an Uighur man in his 30s. "Any Uighur who gets to that kind of position will always be arrested." Like many residents of Khotan - the Xinjiang province city is called Hetian in Chinese - the man was clearly anxious not to be seen talking with foreign journalists. He says he knows Mutallip's family, who had told him that several hundred people tried to enter the hospital where Mutallip died but were blocked by police, sparking a melee...
...recordings have something special to me,” he said. “They always ask a lot of questions: who, why, what, where?...Amateur film, to me, uses the language of ancient film, of Eisenstein, Griffith, of the great American avant-garde filmmakers of the 1920s and 30s.” The filmmaker is fascinated not just by history but also by this sense of how film and images communicate meaning to an audience. “Wittgenstein Tractatus,” Forgács’s tribute to Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is a particularly meditative...