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...apathetic. Her face still lights up with righteous anger when anybody mentions the Nashua Public Housing Authority. She can recite from memory the grievances of every one of her neighbors: Pat’s son got cut from Medicaid; Gary can’t get any formula for his daughter; Nicky’s husband has three jobs and she hardly sees him any more...
Gillian F. Prowse—Paku’s wife and a fellow New Zealand native—said she, Paku and her two-year-old daughter would one day return to New Zealand. She said she did not feel concerned about Harvard’s large-scale investment in her country’s forests...
What do you think our executives think when you object to paying all the costs for [your daughter's] Bat Mitzvah at the House of Blues, an operation owned partly by Disney...
...grand resolution, because she's too wise about Haiti and history to expect the future of her country or even of the most penitent onetime torturer to be clear cut. But when the final piece of her moving puzzle falls into place, we, like the dew breaker's daughter, see just how much we didn't know when we were sure we knew it all. --By Pico Iyer
...linked stories, begins, a young artist born in Brooklyn, N.Y.--Haitian, though she's never been to Haiti--learns from her father how he acquired the scar on his cheek he brought back from prison. He wasn't one of those receiving punishments, he tells his already unsettled daughter; he was one inflicting them. His sense of guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book of the Dead with him. A dew breaker, we will learn, is a torturer...