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...think. There’s a huge range of responses as to what people laugh at. I like the idea of finding humor in a foreign culture. It becomes much more real to you when that happens. It’s a basic humanist idea. THC: Which of the Afghani students inspired you the most? LM: I had the strongest connection to Palwasha, the young girl with the crush on the boy she wasn’t allowed to talk to. She was 19 and so brash and flirty and fun. She clearly wanted to have a more interesting life...
...former Yale admissions dean says the school accepted an ex-Taliban official because it didn’t want to see Harvard woo the Afghani applicant to Cambridge...
...penchant for absurd plot construction, which won over college-aged cult fans in “Donnie Darko,” simply serves to overcomplicate an already thinly stretched concept. At the unnecessary and melodramatic sexuality between Domino and Choco (Domino was actually bisexual), a plot twist involving Afghani liberation, and the segment on “The Jerry Springer Show,” one can’t help but think: “What the hell was the point of that? Go back to showing half-naked Keira shooting Vietnamese thugs...
...Australia." It would be four and a half years before his case was finally decided. South Australian lawyer Claire O'Connor says the Baxter detainees she represents routinely wait more than a year for court judgments, of which they may have several. The troubles of one 21-year-old Afghani who won his case late last year after four years locked up is, she says, typical: "He can't sleep, he can't eat, he has panic attacks and depression - and all because of detention. What I cannot understand is that 87% of people who arrive by boat are eventually...
...Belgian Connection? Last March 13, just two days after bombs destroyed three commuter trains in Madrid, Spanish investigators were directed to a video recording stuffed in a trash can near Madrid's main mosque. On it, a man calling himself Abu Dujan al-Afghani, the self-styled "military spokesman for al-Qaeda in Europe ," claimed responsibility. Last week in Brussels , police arrested a Moroccan-born Belgium resident named Youssef Belhadj, 28, after receiving an arrest warrant from a Spanish judge who suspects Belhadj of being the man in the video. He hasn't been charged and has made no comment...