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...Like Zelig in a dhoti, he has a walk-on part in every major upheaval of the past two decades. Eventually, Kartar Singh's party tries to capitalize on Gopal's iconic ordinariness by running him for Parliament. "Symbols," a jealous opponent observes, "are all some people have to eat and drink...
Late that night, a voice at the door said, ''Come over!'' It was one of the older guards, who had always been humane. ''Why aren't you eating your meals?'' she asked me. ''I don't know how to eat without using my hands,'' I said. ''Think hard. There is a way. You have a spoon.'' The next morning, when the guard called the prisoners to get up, I felt something sticky and wet on my hands. Turning to the quilt, I saw stains of blood mixed with pus. The handcuffs had already broken my skin and were cutting into...
Ishmael Beah doesn't realize it, but he's about to become a rock star. Well, the literary-humanitarian equivalent of a rock star. (I'll eat my hat if he does not meet Bono in the next 12 months.) Beah, 26, slight and handsome with a ready but wary smile, has written a memoir, and it's a doozy. Separated from his parents at 12 when rebel soldiers attacked his Sierra Leonean village, by 13 he was a child soldier and a drug addict. By 19 he was living in the U.S., at Oberlin College, in Ohio. In February...
...worse than organic snacks are the traditional ones trying to be healthy. There are 100-calorie packs of everything, which can't be good for the environment, since you have to open three or four bags every time you eat. "The big trend is all this craziness over trans fats," says Jeremy Selwyn, 36, a Boston software engineer who runs reviews of more than 3,300 snacks on taquitos.net and for the past three years has been an attendee at Snaxpo, the snack-food industry's annual trade show. He bemoans the loss of fried flavor in Cape Cod--brand...
HERMIONE, EAT YOUR HEART...