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...What was your most memorable interview? -Terry Rainey, Chandler, Ariz. The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of the night; a doctor working for Doctors Without Borders in Somalia, operating by kerosene lantern in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory...
...country boy Shakespeare set his plays in faraway lands of long ago, using language that was old-fashioned even then, Middleton, born and raised in London, wrote about urban life in a dialogue that's more familiar to the modern ear. A latter-day Scorsese, he walked on the dark side of the street, where you couldn't tell the good guys from the bad. "Part of the appeal of Shakespeare is that he takes you back to some imagined, glorious past," says Taylor. "But Middleton is overwhelmingly modern. He writes about a world that we immediately understand, in terms...
...with a French friend. In the car were two local men. According to Alexandre, he was placed in the middle backseat, while the men drove the teenagers beyond the neon-soaked skyline and into the desert, where the three local men took turns raping him at knifepoint in the dark. His French friend was ordered to wait outside the car, and has told police he was not attacked. When the men finally deposited the distraught boys back in the city, they threatened to attack Alexandre's family if he dared report them to the police...
...consulate attorney delivered dramatically different results. After he persuaded Dubai police to take a new statement from Alexandre, police arrested and charged two men within hours, thanks to the license plate Alexandre had glimpsed in the near-dark, and Alexandre's ability to spot them in a police lineup. The two men go on trial this Wednesday, charged with "forced homosexuality," knife-wielding and kidnapping; the third suspected attacker - the acquaintance of Alexandre - will stand trial in a juvenile court...
...After dark, he sometimes drives a few miles into the center of Hartlepool for dinner, where a marina built by the council is bolstered by two new call centers and a tourist attraction. The pride of the town is now HMS Trincomalee, a restored 1817 warship, just like the ones Hartlepool was once famous for building, another ghost ship in a town haunted by them...