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...this afternoon, the Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting both of us," says port tax collector Karamo Marong, counting out a thin clump of sweaty bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy...
...Brothers. Phoenix worked consistently until his early teens but quit acting after appearing in Ron Howard's Parenthood. "Movies like that are few and far between, and I knew there wouldn't be anything else worthwhile for an actor my age," says Phoenix. He was offered, for instance, a cross-generational buddy movie with Married with Children's Ed O'Neill, "but there was a lot of bananas in tailpipes and things like that. It didn't ring true, and I had a sense of wanting to explore true stories and true emotions. Even when I quit, I'd make...
...Jordan, and then, Phoenix recalls, the Man in Black cornered him and said, "'I really like that film you did, Gladiator. I love the part where you said'--and he did a better reading than me--'Your son squealed like a girl when they nailed him to the cross, and your wife moaned like a whore when they ravaged her again and again and again!' Within minutes of looking into his wife's eyes and singing like an angel, he turned into this ogre. We all have those two sides, but it was just so cool that he wasn...
Never has there been such an opportunity for the cross-cultural exchange of ideas as the Internet provides. For a person to discover that aspects of his religion are similar to those of another is to open an additional door to the true oneness of humanity. RON SMITH Scotia, New York...
...potentially face off—literally—in only the sixth game of their respective college careers. And although Adam might not make it on the field this Saturday, it’s still a scenario Andrew has thought about.“The first thought that would cross my mind would be how weird these circumstances were,” he said. “Throughout high school, I’m just used to seeing a cornerback in man-coverage against Adam and knowing exactly where to go with the football.”Andrew is already...