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WALT DISNEY HAD a cunning formula: use the highest illustrative art to make horror movies for kids. Next to Pinocchio (play hooky and you will morph into a donkey), Bambi is the most artful and potent--and the scariest--of Walt's early features. After the youngsters have watched a movie in which a child sees its mother shot and killed, the grownups can stay around to see deleted scenes and ancient storyboards. Later, the kids can play the eight interactive games...
...huge. Civil war and the lack of an effective central government have left Somalia splintered into a mosaic of clan-based fiefdoms. Two mini-states in the north have broken away, though no country recognizes their independence. In the Mogadishu suburbs that sprawl around the devastated old quarter, donkey carts and machine gun-fitted pickups compete for passage on sand-swept streets. Militias still clash regularly and murders and kidnappings are common. Public infrastructure is almost nonexistent. Returning Somalia to its prewar status will take billions of dollars, according to Maxwell Gaylard, who heads up the United Nations' Somalia programs...
With George W. Bush in the White House for the next four years and the G.O.P. in full command of Congress, K Street is suddenly no place for a battered and bruised donkey. Thousands of Washington Democrats have to find a Plan B, as unlike John Kerry, not all of them have a safe job in the U.S. Senate to go back to. A look at the reincarnations of men who once aspired to be President. By Peter Bailey...
...like a 4th century Roman sarcophagus that shows them peeking over the side of Jesus' crib. Cute as it was, the image served an interreligious enmity, employing for Christian purposes God's annoyed statement in the Old Testament Book of Isaiah that "the ox knows its owner, and the donkey knows its master's crib, but Israel has not known me." By contrast, the camels that pop up in many Nativities are relatively innocent. A passage from the medieval compendium of saints' lives called The Golden Legend tells how they solved a logistical problem for a perplexed church father...
...Soon she will be joined by others from Tawila. Once a bustling caravan stop, Tawila is now a ghost town, the vast majority of its 55,000 inhabitants having fled. They dot the road to Al Fashir, on donkey and on foot, desperate to cover the 40 miles of desert scrub before their food runs out or they are attacked. Those that remain are too old or sick or poor to leave, and food is running short...