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...detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where a man's bones had been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near Pozi?res, whose capture in 1916 cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From...
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has survived an assassin's bullet, massive opposition demonstrations and two legislative recall motions seeking to remove him from office. But after Taiwan High Court prosecutors indicted First Lady Wu Shu-chen on corruption and forgery charges last Friday, Chen now faces the biggest challenge yet to his presidency...
...being serious about Sudan requires us to challenge our orthodoxies, not to engage in cookie cutter activism that brings the greatest of efforts to bear on the party with the smallest share of the blame. Even if we don’t have a silver bullet for Sudan, we should at least understand that the problem we face has everything to do with others’ bullets, and not just with our dollar bills...
...blog, literally.barelyfitz.com, said: “I was watching the NFL network yesterday (9/17) and the announcer (unfortunately, I don’t know his name), in talking about the Giants comeback victory over the Eagles, mentioned that the Giants had ‘literally put a bullet in the heads of the Eagles’. Well, no wonder they...
...followed several fractured lives thrown together following a deadly hit-and-run auto accident. Now there’s “Babel,” which strays—slightly—from the car mishap scenario. It examines the struggles of those affected by a bullet that hits an American tourist on a Moroccan tour bus.This thematic repetition is a bit distressing, not necessarily because the random-people-thrown-together scenario is so well-worn, but rather because Iñárritu is running out of things to say with it. The title alludes to the biblical...