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...more than he needs to. Take his latest novel. With China's highly controversial one-child population-control policy as its topic, Frog traces the life of a midwife who witnesses forced late-term abortions, forced sterilization and other horrors, and it does so whimsically - in the form of four letters and a play. The midwife's struggle to reconcile her conflicting loyalties to party, family and patients forms the backbone of the narrative, which Mo Yan says had been percolating in his head since the early 1980s. "The reason I postponed the writing of Frog was because...
Trouble in the Old World The chain of scandals now tightening around the Vatican began in Ireland last year with the publication of two government-commissioned reports concerning sexual abuse by priests and at schools and orphanages run by the church. Four of Ireland's 24 bishops offered their resignation. Since then, the Irish Primate, Cardinal Sean Brady, has admitted he met two young victims of a pedophile priest in 1975 and asked them to sign an oath of silence. The priest went on to molest children for almost two decades before being arrested and sent to prison. Brady...
...years--this is the fourth dance piece she's created for his music--and she's ready for the critics to complain that she's repeating herself. Yet this high-low priestess explains her new approach--the show is set in a nightclub and follows the relationships of four couples--by citing writers like Tolstoy and Balzac (she's been devouring both lately) as well as the Ernest Borgnine movie Marty (which provides the model for one of the couples). Ordinary theatergoers are likely to catch little of this. But they'll see a show that uses dance to make...
...curious bronze statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Foreigners flocked to the park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who spent four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians didn't want the statue here," says Yunus, a park keeper. After three months, the monument was quietly moved to a nearby school where Obama studied. "I'm not against Obama," says Protus Tanuhandaru, one of the founders of a Facebook page that called for the figure's removal...
...opposed civilian trials for the alleged 9/11 conspirators and that they could affect his support for closing Guantánamo Bay prison, a key Obama goal. If that was a warning shot, Holder chose to ignore it. On Nov. 13, Holder announced that the U.S. would bring KSM and his four co-conspirators to New York for trial...