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...Gareth, the foodboy, works in a hotel kitchen in Llanparc, Wales. As the story begins he walks along a lonely mountain road carrying a sack filled with a souvenir snow globe and a steak of raw Welsh lamb. He's going to meet his friend Ross, and feed him. Ross hasn't been himself lately, as we see through a series of flashbacks. We first meet Ross, a big guy with a shaved head, at a tent revival in the middle of the town. Ross interrupts the sermon to proselytize his own beliefs - a system he characterizes by saying nothing...
...Gareth and Ross check out the shrinking lake in Carol Swain's "Foodboy...
...converts. A magnetic personality, by degrees Ross's behavior becomes more peculiar. He and his troop stop using words and don't appear in daylight too often. Eventually their teeth turn sharp and canine-like and they spend time digging up bones from an old graveyard. Hence the steak Gareth is bringing for Ross. The snowglobe seems to be an attempt to amuse...
...being acquitted last week, 14 men, foreigners like Mzoudi, were languishing in high-security prisons in the U.K., facing indefinite detention as suspected terrorists. They haven't been tried, and they aren't going to be. They don't even know the specific charges against them. Gareth Peirce, a lawyer for some of the detainees, says, "They expect now to remain locked up for the remainder of their lives." Last week, after a parliamentary committee concluded this internment system...
...GARETH PENNY Gem Dandy...