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...first chapter the daughter of Haitian expats living in Brooklyn learns that her father is not, as she thought, a former prison inmate. He was a prison guard and, worse, a torturer and an executioner for the bloody Duvalier regime. The chapters that follow explore the rings of aftermath that spread out from his crimes like terrible ripples; in the final, riveting chapter, we confront the torturer himself at work...
...should be prepared to help in the long haul and not just in the immediate aftermath,” Ronan said...
Banjoko explained that the rise in popularity of hip-hop was a result of social pressures of the early 1970s and the aftermath of 1960s civil rights movements...
...aftermath of the war in Iraq, the Administration has realized it can't change the world on its own. Similarly, the Europeans have learned that it sometimes takes good, old-fashioned U.S. might to get the attention of undemocratic regimes and so prepare the ground for reform. There is a lot the U.S. and the E.U. can do together to rein in the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran, to further cement Turkey's relationship with the West, to combat the threat of terrorism. So while he's traveling through Europe this week, President George W. Bush might want...
...Performance of the Week Two former U.S. Presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, arrived in Asia last week on a four-country tour to keep the world's attention focused on the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami. The pair?in Democrat blue and Republican red, respectively?visited a stricken village in southern Thailand on their first stop; an emotional Bush praised "the spirit of the Thai people" while Clinton stressed the need "not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there...