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...disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined to his bed for weeks, too weak to walk. His son suggested the cart, hoping that a little fresh air would energize his ailing parent. A few weeks later, the father was dead...
...head straight to a Japanese hospital. Reeling from the scandal over its abuse of prisoners in Iraq, the U.S. is unlikely to risk a public relations debacle by hunting down a sick man. So, Jenkins might be safe after all?so long as he doesn't leave his hospital bed...
There’s a downside, too. Sometimes I want to disappear into the woodwork for a while, or stay in bed instead of manning a keg at a Mather Happy Hour. There’s something to be said for keeping a low profile. That way, you can avoid being tracked down by the Alumni Association for donations after college. Think of Henry David Thoreau and the joys of solitude at Walden Pond...
...staffing a Prime Minister's office and a new anticorruption law that is about to be implemented. Bremer listens, offers advice. There are no orders given. The dictator's time, it's clear enough, is about up. Later Bremer discloses that Allawi jokingly complained to him about going to bed after midnight and being back at work by 6. A weary smile crosses the face of the soon-to-be ex-proconsul. "Yeah," Bremer says he told Allawi, "now you're getting...
Clanship is simply an extension of the kinship that is found every time we visit Ireland. The local doctor treats us like one of her longtime patients on first visit, while my great uncle’s friend’s wife welcomes us to her bed and breakfast as if we were old family friends. I feel at home in Ireland because I’m treated as if I am home...