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Before they knew the full extent of all they had lost to Katrina--their home, their family silver, their wedding and baby pictures--childhood sweethearts Carmelita, 43, and Nathaniel Williams, 49, their daughter Jennifer, 9, and Nathaniel's daughter from a previous relationship, Natrena Lewis, 24, briefly feared they had lost the most precious thing of all: one of their own. Five days after New Orleans' levees collapsed, flooding the city, Natrena, a home health aide who had stayed behind to help a patient get into a shelter, was stranded on the rooftop of a motel along with...
...Timorese judges, some of whom have been presiding over prosecutions for crimes against humanity in the Special Panels for Serious Crimes, have failed their probationary evaluation and are no longer qualified to hear cases. "People ask me, How about those people who have been sent to jail already?" says Carmelita Moniz, who has ruled on hundreds of civil and criminal cases since being appointed in 2000, "and I can't answer them...
...Timorese went to the polls. When a huge majority voted two years ago for independence from Indonesia, pro-Jakarta militiamen repaid them with a frenzy of destruction across the country. On referendum day, militia members whispered threats through frightened voting queues. "There were spies behind our backs," says Sister Carmelita Martins, who lives in the coastal village of Maubara, west of Dili. "We ran home after we had voted...
...Chronicles tries to bring together the musical styles that can be heard along the I-10, a freeway that stretches across the southern United States. The original blues and country compositions are enjoyable. There are quite a few covers, too; Duritz's remake of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" stands out, as does Willie Nelson's interpretation of "Everybody's Talkin'." Even Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa (featured in Buena Vista Social Club) joins in, performing "El Guateque de Don Thomas," a traditional Cuban song; as the liner notes explain, Cuban music was popular along the Gulf of Mexico...
...most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance and she tows the line/ Cause she knows where it's been drawn." Peters' world holds more ifs than epiphanies. "The secret of life," promised in the title...