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...Persepolis 2, the character Marjane--whose story is more or less identical to the author's--spends time living on the streets in Europe before a difficult homecoming in Iran, where she must confront unrelenting state-sanctioned chauvinism...
...more than 300 blacks. Meldrum describes one such victim in the book: "His backless hospital gown revealed two gaping craters where his buttocks should have been." Yet to this day, South African President Thabo Mbeki plays defense lawyer to Mugabe, declaring that "President Mugabe can assist us to confront the problems we have in South Africa." Meldrum quotes the lone voice of Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, on the ominous consequences of Mbeki's attitude. "If we are seemingly indifferent to human-rights violations happening in a neighboring country, what is to stop us one day being indifferent...
...left the hospital...and drove to her house. Where better to confront the whole grieving clan? As the door opened I could hear a family member cry (and I mean cry), “This is incredible...
...anything, Sadr's decision to confront Allawi and the Americans from inside the holy city reflects a canny, and often underestimated political instinct on the part of the populist cleric. Ever since Baghdad fell to U.S. forces in April 2003, Sadr has parlayed his strong following among the Shiite urban poor and the growing resentment toward the U.S. to his own advantage. And his previous showdown with the U.S. - last April, when they tried to arrest him in connection with a warrant issued by an Iraqi judge - had showed that tangling with the Americans actually boosted, rather than undermined...
...behavior of the passengers (for instance, getting up several times during the flight, going to the bathroom often, congregating in the aisle) and described the increasing concern she and her husband felt. She said the flight attendants were also frightened, so much so that they seemed too scared to confront...