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Thurston’s hodgepodge of comedic asylum is tough to stomach in one sitting. He says he wants the reader to be able to open up the book to any page and enjoy it. Fifteen minute doses of witty acumens should be more than enough to satisfy anyone...
...additional Marines prepared to board naval vessels, poised to cruise just off Haiti's coast this week. Meanwhile, more than 500 Haitians fleeing to the U.S. on boats were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, which sent them home without even granting interviews to determine if they merited asylum...
...capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday, February 29-his 36th birthday-to force President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. But early that morning, Aristide-realizing that not only the international community but his own police forces had abandoned him-resigned and hopped on a plane to Africa where asylum awaited...
...civil rights movement in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa, with flagrant police brutality, pitched battles over integrated education and segregated health services. But the novel's ID cards, casual racial abuse and media stereotyping are topical in Britain today. "Especially with the rhetoric you get about asylum seekers," says Blackman. In seeking to get beneath the skin of terrorism, she is confronting an issue as raw as race. Although Noughts and Crosses was written before Sept. 11, the interest of U.S. publishers disappeared soon after that day. "They got cold feet," says Blackman. Nonetheless, in Knife Edge...
Those seeking culinary asylum in Adams House’s dining hall between the hours of 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. this week were surely met with the same Medieval lack of hospitality as ever—but, for the second month in a row, no correspondingly barbaric music reminded onlookers of the House’s closed borders. Adams’ gong is still gone, and it will not be missed by the rest of the free world. But a far more discomforting silence has greeted the ears over intersession: the silence of complacency. It has been only...