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...Tangalu and her family waited in the jungle those two nights, hoping that the Muslims would leave after the attack, as they had a month earlier when they destroyed the nearby village of Patiwunga. But this was no hit-and-run foray by locals bent on revenge. This time, Tangalu soon realized, the attackers had more long-range intentions. So she and her family walked for two more days through the jungle. A police car escorted the family to a Christian rescue group, which then took them to safety in Tentena, where they are staying with some 20 other refugee...
...both sides of the Green Line. On the Israeli side, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, a fixture in Israel’s Labor Party, enjoys respect among Israeli and Palestinian elites. He has impressed Western leaders with his willingness to press for diplomatic solutions even as the Israeli leadership is bent on revenge, and he has maintained a safe distance from Sharon’s right-wing leadership despite serving in the coalition government. The Middle East peace process would also probably do better under former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, widely perceived as the front-runner for the Labor Party...
That said, take the trees down already. Inappropriate as it is, the swastika comparison shows that to some people, public endorsement of a Christmas tree might be the spiral arm of something dire. And if Christmas trees are so harmless and secular, why are we bent on erecting them? To prove that Our Fun can’t be spoiled by Some Whiny Minority? Let’s find a new way to decorate, one that generates festivity and spirit instead of bad analogies. I recommend bright fabric, big jars of pasta and squashes with wigs...
...Luckily, they throw music at Cameron. People saw the picture and bent over backwards to make sure that we could get the music that we wanted. And also, hanging out with Cameron is great, because you get all the bootleg copies of all the music you could ever want [laughs all around]. Anything you can imagine, it’s incredible...
Ulrich’s gifts as a writer become evident as she delves into the shapes, textures and stories of her 11 objects. Her clean, crisp prose and scholarly bent do not obscure, but rather enhance her delight in her subjects. We delight as well. Part history lesson, part jigsaw puzzle, The Age of Homespun spins yarns about colonial life and the people who lived it from the most ordinary of jumping-off points. For example, the Indian basket demonstrates new contact between English settlers and Algonkians in what is now Providence, R.I. and the subsequent blending of the cultures?...