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...escape the strictures of imperialist London. He makes a surreal journey to a village on the Salween River, where he meets Surgeon-Major Anthony Carroll?this story's Kurtz. After several months in Carroll's polymathic world of specimen collections and local power struggles, Drake is forced to flee. The Piano Tuner ends gracefully, if vaguely, with Drake's final escape from the dilemma of choosing between two realities: that of the imperialists and that of Carroll's native paradise. By then, Mason's prose has been liberated too. The jungleultimately wins, as it did over Conrad's Kurtz. Like...
...amount of knowledge about the outside world flowing into the country. Hundreds of aid workers have been in and out of the country in recent years, bringing with them new ideas and information. Thousands of North Koreans have crossed across the Tumen River into China attempting to flee or simply looking for food. Many come back not only with food, but also bearing tales of the wonders of China's booming cities and stores brimming with goods. According to one defector, Chinese-Koreans are bringing cell phones into North Korea, using them along the border and even leaving them behind...
...Pakistan who would battle the invading Americans to the death. Today, U.S. and Afghan intelligence officials believe only a few hundred hard-core al-Qaeda operatives remain alive in Afghanistan, with a similar number hiding across the border in Pakistan. The rest were captured or killed or forced to flee, in smaller numbers, to places like Indonesia, Yemen, Iran and Iraq...
...starred review. "'Who in future times will believe that human beings fought each other over a potato?' So asks this utterly unsentimental, open-eyed, harrowing portrait of ghetto life during the Holocaust...Rosenfeld was a modestly successful writer of novels and novellas when the Nazi Anschluss forced him to flee to Prague. Following the German conquest of Czechoslovakia, he was transported to the ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was put to work in the statistics bureau...Officially, and with the knowledge and permission of the Nazi overseers, Rosenfeld recorded such matters as death, food rations, decrees from the ghetto...
...taking on Baghdad. Robert Scales, a retired major general who used to run the U.S. Army War College, says the Americans should avoid door-to-door battles and instead cordon off the capital with a loose chain of tanks and armored vehicles. This porous ring would allow civilians to flee the city center, where Saddam's soldiers--and perhaps the Iraqi leader himself--would be holed up, anxiously waiting for a "mother of all battles" that would never materialize. "You can be patient, with a minimum loss of life," says Scales, "or you can rush in and kill...