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...years - by selling the small vegetable stall his parents passed on to him before his 20th birthday. He gets advice on the best escape route from someone in the neighborhood whose relative has just made the journey. In the past, fleeing Somalis would travel by boat through the Suez Canal, but now that Egypt has tightened its border controls, the preferred route is overland to Libya, then by boat. His mother tries to talk him out of it, telling Abdi Salan that the trip is too risky and life will be hard even if he makes...
Before turning to fiction in the early 1980s, Chinese writer Yu Hua toiled as a country dentist. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind...
...Bennett arrived at the appointed hour and got into a car that sped west out of the capital. Halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi, he was blindfolded, and the car turned off the highway. After 10 minutes it stopped. His guide explained that they were placing wooden planks over a canal. They drove over the water and into a grove of baby pomegranate trees...
Teddy Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to go abroad on business-to check the construction of his Panama Canal in 1906-but a 21st century leader is expected overseas on a regular basis. Last Thursday, George W. Bush, an unenthusiastic traveler, began his third trip to Asia, where memories of past presidential visits are vivid-and where the footsteps he follows are sometimes those of his old man. His stops...
...media empire imploded under huge debt and a devastated stock price. Now Vivendi will get its $14 billion asking price, including $3.8 billion in cash up front as well as a 20% stake in the new venture, while still hanging on to its telecommunications company Cegetel and the Canal Plus TV business. NBC Universal would unite the top-rated TV network with Universal Studios, Universal's theme parks and cable networks that include...