Word: deserter
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...Auslander’s freshest vignettes is his “Startling Revelations from the Lost Book of Stan,” the saga of an American Jewish traveler who discovers the “Extremely Old Testament” in a dark cave in the Negev Desert...
...serious talk about landmines in Afghanistan—the issue that got him mad enough to start drawing “Get Your War On” in the first place. He showed the audience a clip of a mine expert locating and defusing a bomb in an Afghan desert, and promoted the anti-landmine charity to which he donates much of his proceeds...
...make a song and dance. My team got Henri Rousseau’s Fauvist painting “The Sleeping Gypsy” so it’s been fun making music that “moves like a lion” or “sounds like the desert...
...remote desert villages of Pakistan beyond the reach of government courts, tribal law is often the only adjudicator of local disputes?and the use of rape to settle scores is common. In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was publicly raped by four volunteers in the hamlet of Meerwala in central Pakistan on the orders of village elders. She had committed no crime: her 12-year-old brother had been accused of walking with a girl from the higher Mastoi caste, and Mai was chosen to bear the punishment for her family...
Justice Overturned In the remote desert villages of Pakistan beyond the reach of government courts, tribal law is often the only adjudicator of local disputes - and the use of rape to settle scores is common. In June 2002, 30-year-old Mukhtar Mai was publicly raped by four volunteers in the hamlet of Meerwala in central Pakistan on the orders of village elders. She had committed no crime: her 12-year-old brother had been accused of walking with a girl from the higher Mastoi caste, and Mai was chosen to bear the punishment for her family. Victims of such...