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...write Treatment, I thought it would be a perfect role for him. There are aspects to him that people just haven't seen. He's perceived as very handsome and charming, but people don't know his complexity or how raw he can be. He's a really brave actor...
Carpentaria nearly went nowhere. With its unwieldy size and unconventional voice, it was rejected by most mainstream publishers, and Wright was almost resigned to seeing it languish "archived in the Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher...
Baiano is frying potatoes next to an open sewer in a district of São Paulo known as Campo Limpo (beautiful field). His van is plastered with election posters. Three girls brave the miasma of cooking oil and rotting waste to hand him leaflets for a rival. They've been paid to campaign - voting is compulsory [an error occurred while processing this directive] in Brazil so even slums are targeted when polling day approaches. Baiano has taken no money for his electioneering, and explains "this man isn't the best candidate, but I owe him a favor...
Michael showed instinctive courage in that instant in the back of the humvee, but I think you'll agree that the courage he showed in the weeks and months afterward is even more profound. The honesty that he displays in looking at his life is sometimes painful but always brave. He saw the same courage in the young soldiers he befriended in rehabilitation, and he writes movingly about them in his new book, Blood Brothers. Michael is the first to say his own suffering barely compares with that of the soldiers he came to know on Ward 57 of Walter...
...easy. But in Darfur, where it is happening now, stopping genocide is brutally hard. A contingent of 7,000 African Union peacekeepers currently patrol the Texas-size chunk of western Sudan where government-backed militias are busy exterminating the non-Arab population. The African soldiers are decent and brave, but they are engaged in a sham. The militias menace villagers in front of the peacekeepers' eyes; Sudan's government steals the fuel they need to fly their planes. In the words of U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, "The people on the ground are just laughing...