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...happened next surprised almost everyone. Published in Vietnam in mid-2005, the war diaries became a runaway hit, selling some 430,000 copies in a country where few books have a print run greater than 5,000. Tram herself became a national hero, with hundreds of people visiting her grave site and a hospital named after her. For the younger generation of Vietnamese (nearly 60% of the population was born after the war's end in 1975), Tram's ardent accounts of bloody conflict offer a vivid connection to a time their parents find difficult to speak about. Now translated...
...Sudani is dead, done for, six feet under and pushing up daisies," says the official. Witnesses say during operations in the south, Ethiopian helicopters and planes hit vehicles up and down the border, unwittingly killing al-Sudani. According to local villagers, his body now lies in an unmarked grave among the thorn trees and scrubland swamps...
Atheism has had a best-selling moment of late with the success of books by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and Pullman runs the grave and improbable risk of becoming not just mainstream but fashionable. But he isn't a creature of fashion any more than he's a creature of Satan. "I'm a great admirer of both men," he says, "but I wouldn't want to be part of any movement that had an agenda. I'm not arguing a case. I'm not preaching a sermon. I'm not giving a lecture. I'm telling a story...
...Pakistan's Emergency President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency may have made Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, turn over in his grave [Nov. 19]. Many people are demonstrating against the tyrant Musharraf. It is time that all Pakistanis stand for a democratic Pakistan and work hand in hand to fight the evils that are keeping them apart. Cajetan Peter D'Souza, MUMBAI...
...Pakistan's Emergency President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency may have made Pakistan's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, turn over in his grave [Nov. 19]. Many people are demonstrating against Musharraf. It is time that all Pakistanis stand for a democratic Pakistan and work hand in hand to fight the evils that are keeping them apart. Cajetan Peter D'Souza, Mumbai...