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...just her first nonfiction book not about literature; it's also a series of speeches. Atwood has turned Payback into a Canadian Broadcast Corporation Massey Lecture Series, in which she explores debt as a cultural construct, from favor-trading in chimpanzee societies to, well, favor-trading among the Corleone clan in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about how to get out of financial debt or how to manage your accounts. In fact, the last third of the book focuses on humanity's indebtedness to nature, as told through a parody of A Christmas Carol...
...clan made 20 L of moonshine to prepare to celebrate, and by the time midnight came around in Kenya on Nov. 4, all of it was gone and the Obamas of Kogelo in the Rift Valley were asleep. To be sure, a rainstorm had washed out much of the clan's festivities. But clearly no one was staying up to wait for the U.S. networks to declare a winner in that presidential race far away - be it their favorite relative or not. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree.) They will wait for daybreak - or a long-distance call...
...settlers." One senior Israeli officer concurs. "The Palestinians won't be close to the settlements. They'll be confronting Hamas, and this is in our best interests." The Palestinian forces, says Ali, will try to quell drug trafficking, car theft and bring an end to Hebron's murderous clan feuds...
Somalia has been a failed state since its degeneration into clan warfare in the 1990s following the death of the dictator of General Mohammed Siad Barre. Today, it is ruled by a fragile coalition of warlords kept in place by the Ethiopian army, which invaded with U.S. backing to drove out an Islamist authority that had, ironically, managed to tamp down piracy, but was also harboring wanted al-Qaeda figures. And some of the warlords in the current government are accused by international observers of being the real commanders of Puntland's half-dozen main pirate groups...
...Baptiste does not say as much, there's reason to believe that the French may have learned enough in the course of interrogating the nine to make it politically dangerous for their warlord masters to set them free. "We know who the pirates are, where they come from, what clan they're with - we know quite a bit," Baptiste says. "If it's learned they've somehow vanished into air, we'd also have good reasons for speculating why that happened...