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...been a year since the U.S. and its allies launched the war in Iraq. They deposed and eventually captured a dictator, but the country has fallen into a prolonged state of anarchy, during which 558 U.S. troops have died along with 101 other foreign soldiers and an estimated 10,000 Iraqi civilians. Americans have mostly watched the saga unfold from afar, but for Iraqis the car bombs, shootings and roadblocks have become part of daily life, a regimen in which new opportunities coexist with the most terrifying of dangers...
When it’s loud enough, Triple R’s gorgeous Friends mix on Kompakt makes me feel like I’m dancing inside a womb. Debussy might’ve fallen head over heels for the German house label, whose artists are masters at coloring texture as well as tone. Like so much new music, it fully engages the physical field, which is exactly why you can’t listen to it the same way you used to be able to enjoy a lyric or a tune—it’s become more...
There is no respite in The Trojan Women. The play, about the fate of the women of Troy after the city has fallen, is brutally honest about the fate of the conquered. Every few minutes a herald comes on stage announcing that one woman is to be raped, another is to become a slave, or a third’s child is to be killed. These announcements are followed by general lamentation on the part of the Trojan women, after which another horrible fate is proclaimed...
...Harvard employees’ campaign contributions did not fallen into this pattern...
...food on the table--or not. If her standards are high, it is understandable. She pays twice the market price for 456,000 lbs. of their coffee. Why? Co-op president Josafat Hernandez has a simple explanation: "It allows us to survive." Coffee prices on the world market have fallen by two-thirds in the past five years to below what it costs to grow the beans here. Misery stalks the co-op's 43 hamlets, where as many as half the men have emigrated to Mexico City's slums or the U.S. Along the roads, children as young...