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...House on Mango Street,” or “normal books that people read all the time,” as Duncan described them. “They wrote a 20-page questionnaire, and they took a bunch of quotes out of context, plopped them down, and said ‘would you want your kids reading this smut...
Sometimes that seemed like the most difficult part of it. I didn't go to a place; I always went to a story. The ones that worked out best were the ones in which the place was really the context for the story, and you learn something about the place as well. Finding the pieces was sometimes a matter of going to the out-of-town newsstand - which is probably closed by now - and buying a two-foot pile of newspapers from various parts of the country. Obviously reporters are always looking for stories with some tension and some narrative...
...Putting the film and its audience in the proper context, I stopped sniffing the air for traces of socialism and sat back and enjoyed the show...
...context of Africa's worst countries, 200 deaths, despotism, brutality and the corruption of the regime elite is all too usual. The cholera epidemic indicates Zimbabwe is entering a new stage: a humanitarian crisis that affects tens of thousands inside the country and, with hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring over Zimbabwe's borders, all southern Africa too. After initially denying there was a problem, Zimbabwe's regime changed its tune last week, saying it could not cope with the health crisis. "With the coming of the rainy season, the situation could get worse," said deputy health minister Edwin Muguti...
...What are the implications for the rest of the detainees at Guantanamo? In the context of the Obama's administration's stated intention to close Guantanamo, which would involve a review of the remaining cases, this should accelerate that process...