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...childhood. Writing closer to home, Darnielle drops the overbearing hysterics of the alpha-series lover for projections onto details of his childhood. Take despair: In “Tahallassee” our protagonist loses perspective, remarking, “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania.” In “The Sunset Tree” a young Darnielle also loses perspective, but in the other extreme, seeing reflections of his deterioration in the “half-eaten gallons of ice-cream in the freezer.” In “Dance Music...
...full of holes, lack drains and are not much more than muddy paths. I fully agree with Rama when he says that his generation was "not prepared for being politicians in a democratic society" - something he has largely proved over the last five years. Arben Muça Tirana, Albania...
...nationalistic, Asiatic (geographically as well as culturally) country that has a history of disrespect for ethnic, religious and other minorities - to become a powerful decision maker in the E.U.? Before going elsewhere for new E.U. members, perhaps we should be embracing our European neighbors: Ukraine, the Balkans and even Albania. Yevgen Shapkin Montrouge, France...
...Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; Guillermo E. Franco Morales, content manager of new media and editor of eltiempo.com in Bogota, Colombia; Takashi Oshima, a reporter, for The Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, Japan; Altin Raxhimi, a producer-editor for Top Channel T.V., and correspondent for Transitions Online, in Tirana, Albania; and Alice Tatah, a producer/presenter for Cameroon Radio and Television in Yaounde...
...their home country and participate in the running of their country, giving them a sense of ownership. Of course, encouraging good governance and stability are precursors to growth and retention of professionals, so all advances made in that direction will be profitable. Or, nations could follow the lead of Albania, which has instituted a policy that awards preference to foreign-trained students if there is a tie for a job position. Those who train and even live elsewhere are then not being treated as traitors or outsiders, but as part of society. Finally, developing countries might also revise their constitutions...