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...novel that follows is set in the Philippines under strongman Ferdinand Marcos?as was Dogeaters, Hagedorn's first novel?but the themes go back to Magellan: explorers turn out to be conquerors, Westerners are still bending Philippine destinies and lechery continues to bind colonizer and native...
...short story The Orphan, part of her debut collection, Lucky Girls, the author satirizes with efficiency, content to let her targets hang themselves with their own words. But Freudenberger is after more than the easy comedy of young Americans in old Asia. She seeks the unseen forces that bind together families?both biological and artificial?no matter how far apart their individual members roam. At the orphanage where Mandy works with AIDS-afflicted children, the suddenly tender daughter hands an infant to her squeamish, confused mother, Alice, who stares back at the grown child now drifting unfathomably far from...
...even bigger bind. He has called for a high-risk national referendum next month on whether he should continue to govern. "If Roh approves any deployment," says Lee Seung Hun of the Democratic Labor Party, which currently supports Roh, "I can guarantee he'll find the rest of his presidency unbearable." The U.S. is being forced to relearn an old lesson in Asia: all politics are local...
...great for students but the council will be in a financial bind,” council member Justin R. Chapa ’05 said...
Although Lifland’s ruling does not bind the New Haven and Philadelphia courts, according to Greenfield, “judges in the other cases will undoubtedly look at the opinion in this case and will very well use it as a guide in those cases...