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Barrel Fever is as chock full of art and wisdom as I'd hoped. It's also proof that Sedaris can get as smelly as the best of them; several of the stories include grim details of home amputations, athletic phone sex and baby murder...
...hiding two months ago when her challenge of Scripture prompted legal charges and Muslim fatwas, or religious decrees, calling for her death. Last week, as she emerged from a Toyota sedan into Dhaka's High Court building, a black head scarf and tinted glasses disguised her features. She appeared grim and jittery through a 45-minute hearing that ended with her release on $250 bail. Then she fled home to relatives she had not seen since June 4. By the consensus of literary critics, Nasrin, an outspoken feminist and atheist, is no Salman Rushdie. Her rather slapdash stories have gained...
...Arab as Plutocrat. The gas lines of the '70s fueled the image of overpowerful sheiks, shifty in kaffiyehs and sunglasses, plotting the petrodollar domination of the world in grim melodramas like Marlon Brando's The Formula (1980), Richard Gere's Power and Jane Fonda's Rollover (1981). There is an ironic precedent for such pop paranoia: the anti-Semitic myth of the all-powerful...
...screened to see if they have antibodies to HIV, the virus that causes aids. In about 7,000 U.S. cases a year, the test is positive, which merely indicates that antibodies produced in the mother's blood have moved to the child during pregnancy. But the implications are grim: the mother is infected with the virus for sure, and there is a 25% chance that the child picked up not just antibodies but the virus itself while in the womb or during delivery...
...Looking grim and disoriented, O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty to charges that he stabbed to death his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Controversy continued as authorities released dramatic audiotapes of an emergency 911 call made by Nicole Simpson to police in October, reporting her ex-husband's break-in at her home. In a twist at week's end, a judge aborted a grand jury investigation of the case for fear that swelling publicity might have influenced panel members, and channeled the proceedings to an open hearing instead...