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...Gitmo decent reviews. Airat Vakhitov, one of eight alleged Talibs from Russia, wrote to his mother in Tatarstan that his conditions in Gitmo were much better than in the best Russian sanatorium. In fact, his mother Amina is concerned lest the Americans extradite her son to face a worse fate back home; she and another Russian mother have petitioned the U.S. government not to deport their sons. One detainee's brother, Arsen Mokayev, who served two years in prison for a criminal offense, sees it this way: "If they get into the hands of Russian investigators, they will be tortured...
Bush's Thanksgiving Day swoop into Baghdad will inevitably tie his fate more closely to the volatile situation in Iraq. Having stood on Iraqi soil and committed the U.S. to seeing its mission through, the President will have little room to maneuver during the election campaign if he's faced with increasing calls to bring the troops home. If the American death toll slows, Saddam Hussein is found and democracy begins to take root, Bush won't need a campaign ad to make his point. But if Iraq gets worse instead of better, neither will his opponents...
...lives in Strasbourg.) Like her creator, Salie leaves behind a younger brother who yearns to join her, convinced that, even without papers, he can become a star football player if he can just reach French soil. As Salie tries to dissuade him with somber stories of the fate of other illegal immigrants, Diome exposes the myths and stereotypes that mar the largely unexplored relationship between West Africans and their former colonizers. "Young people in my village imagine life in France, but they don't really know what goes on in French society," says Diome. An illegitimate child raised...
...Opposite of Fate, Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan reveals that one of the reasons she became a writer was to make a testament to her mother, Daisy, who emigrated from China in 1949. The formidable Daisy, who appears frequently in this collection of essays, had a distinct voice of her own, typified by this Talibanic pronouncement on the mortal perils of dating: "Don't ever let boy kiss you. You do, you can't stop. Then you have baby. You put baby in garbage can. Police find you, put you in jail, then you life over, better just kill yourself...
...sought to unweave the tangled web of family memory and to trace those threads that span continents?Asia and North America?and generations. Tan's stolid Chinese mothers are the repositories of those tightly bound reminiscences; to their conflicted daughters falls the duty of unraveling them. The Opposite of Fate is an attempt to pull at some of the loose ends, with added ruminations on the quirks of celebrity authorship, recollections of rocking-and-rolling with Stephen King and an inevitable (and forgettable) commencement address. But Tan's best essays are essentially ghost stories that cut through the knotted past...