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Harbor is set in a Boston barely recognizable to most American eyes. It is the Boston of illegal Arab immigrants, the claustrophobic demimonde of the recently arrived. Harbor follows the fortunes of Aziz, a 24-year-old Algerian who has just survived 52 days in the hold of a freighter. Speaking no English, Aziz is trapped in a shadowy half-life of dilapidated shared apartments and humiliating service-level jobs. He trusts nobody, and nobody trusts him. "It had been months," he thinks at one point, "since he had told a single human being a completely truthful sentence." His dislocation...
Harbor is set in a Boston barely recognizable to most American eyes. It is the Boston of illegal Arab immigrants, the claustrophobic demimonde of the recently arrived. Harbor follows the fortunes of Aziz, a 24-year-old Algerian who has just survived 52 days in the hold of a freighter. Speaking no English, Aziz is trapped in a shadowy half-life of dilapidated shared apartments and humiliating service-level jobs. He trusts nobody, and nobody trusts him. "It had been months," he thinks at one point, "since he had told a single human being a completely truthful sentence." His dislocation...
...DIED. HUBERT SELBY JR., 75, former merchant marine who wrote novels thick with drugs, violence and human failings, including Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream; in Los Angeles. While working on a freighter at the age of 18, Selby contracted a nearly fatal case of tuberculosis, and during his convalescence he developed a taste for literature and addictions?later kicked?to alcohol and morphine. His 1964 novel Last Exit drew critical praise for its realistic portrayal of doomed prostitutes, dejected transvestites and predatory ex-cons, and was also scorned for its graphic depictions of rape, beatings...
...April of 2002, members of the environmental activist organization Greenpeace engaged in a routine demonstration. Two activists boarded a freighter off Miami that was believed to be carrying mahogany from a protected Brazilian forest, intending to unfurl a banner that read “President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging.” But before they could do so, they—along with four other activists—were detained, arrested and sentenced to time served. Case closed, right? Wrong...
...Japan isn't the only shopping mall for North Korea's military machine. Pyongyang gets precursor chemicals for its chemical and biological weapons programs from Europe, China and Russia, according to U.S. and South Korean officials. The freighter that took the North Korean Scuds to Yemen returned to the North via Germany, loading up with a shipment of sodium cyanide?a chemical used in metal plating and gold extraction that can also be used to make nerve gas. That shipment was blocked by German and French authorities. Germany also recently blocked a North Korea-bound consignment of aluminum tubes...