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...part, Alaa, hunched over a borrowed computer in his small apartment, spends hours a day looking at digital photographs of his small son playing on his bed back in Iraq. Alaa hopes to get his Swedish residence papers sometime this year, allowing his wife and 1-year-old boy to join him from Baghdad. The exodus from Iraq is far from over...
...movement is Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...
...Beyond Jamaica, audiences were less excitable when the film opened. What, after all, were they to make of a radical slice of experimental cinema verite shot by an unknown director in Super 16 mm, about a Jamaican boy who leaves the idyllic poverty of the countryside for the squalid poverty of Kingston to follow his dream of becoming a recording star, only to die in a hail of bullets on the beach? Although Henzell's film was a sharp critique on the closed, cutthroat circle of corruption between the island's music industry, police, and drug dealers, what eventually made...
Good news for the (sex) freaks among us who just wanna be loved: three months ago, in a fiction seminar, a girl passed the following note to a boy: “Want to have a 24-hour affair?” They are still happily dating nearly three thousand hours later...The tone was perhaps slightly less romantic at the Harvard Ski Club’s Ski Trip, where one freshman opportunist happily jumped between the beds of three junior ladies—nothing keeps the cold out better than young blood...Except for porn, apparently...
...Bush's latest plan for Iraq is not a strategy but an experiment destined to cost more American and Iraqi lives. The American people elected a stubborn boy to do a man's job and found him wanting. In fact, the whole world finds him wanting. He squandered all the goodwill that flowed toward the U.S. after 9/11 and made a monumental mess of the Middle East, turned the U.S. into the biggest debtor nation in the world, divided the country, flunked on all the important domestic problems and is losing South America. R. Walter Weller Strathroy, Canada...