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...Winthrop Junior Common Room opposite a festive, impressionistic scene of Memorial Church at commencement, Thenjiwe N. Nkosi’s harsh outlines delineate fantastically Stalinist buildings, “moments in South African history.” Carefully adhering to a scheme of stark contrasts in grey, white and black, Nkosi ’04 creates wintry, nightmarish images of apocalypse...
...When I started writing I thought I was really, really fucked up,” Etgar Keret told me in between sips of his Earl Grey tea one Monday afternoon in November. “But so many people identify with my stories that I understood that all of us are really, really fucked...
...similar posts in Kandahar. District commander Haji Abdul Mohammed granted us an audience, surrounded by his curious soldiers in black turbans (one carrying an M-16 made in Kentucky in 1975) and his senior lieutenants in white turbans. Haji Abdul is quite an old man, his beard more grey than black. He told us Rais the Baghran began surrendering eight days ago. The day before troops from this outpost accompanied 20 U.S. Special Forces and governor Haji Shir Mohammed as far north towards Baghran as they could. "For the moment no fighting is taking place in Baghran, and since...
...stopped a few paces short of me and cased me out, looking up and down with a careful eye. I put his age a shade over fifty, but athleticism still oozed from him. For a "white-bearded old man", whose beard is still thick and black with streaks of grey a meagre concession to age, he looked as though he could stride on to a battlefield tomorrow...
...black turban, tipped with grey, a cardigan and a brown pin-stripe waistcoat, Rais told us it was his Islamic duty to "respect you and give you as much hospitality as we can". He then fudged our first question about no longer having power, choosing instead to relay how he had twice met interim government leader Hamid Karzai to speed the transfer of "Taliban power to Karzai." But he happily confirmed his new arrangement with the government, under which he surrendered those weapons he had at hand and vowed not to protect "any of the most wanted people who come...