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Millions of honest and hardworking Italians have to fight a daily battle against the arrogant and corrupt ruling class just to keep their heads above water. While the Italian population is getting progressively poorer, the local and central misruling class is getting richer and more arrogant and behaving as though...
Admirers of Ondaatje's spare, yet poetical prose will find much to enjoy. Describing two people who make love robustly in a grounded plane, he writes: "Their sex takes place in the late afternoons, and shortly afterwards they emerge from the Airstream like humbled dormice." Ondaatje has a gift for...
Another fan, in between high-fiving his bros and rocking his crooked Boston College Eagles hat, shouted at the children to stop and gave them the thumbs down. Yet another young man slapped his face with both hands—over and over—in obvious pain and frustration...
Is this starting to sound familiar? Of course, it does. It's the sound of history repeating itself, the second time as farce. It's Max Bialystock, the crooked Broadway impresario in The Producers, after getting caught ripping off old ladies with Springtime for Hitler, trying the same con behind...
Public attention and help will only last so long. Even with the aid of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and international charities, the country's far-flung provinces are neglected. Honiara's bureaucrats-foreign and local-don't get out this way. Violence in the capital...