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...Read brings us no closer to understanding the actor's art. The mask behind the masks remains in place. Guinness found his greatness in character roles. When he tried to escape what his early mentor John Gielgud tactlessly called "those funny little men you do so well" by playing Hamlet and Macbeth, he flopped. He scored as the schemers and observers on life's periphery; from the Fool to Laurence Olivier's King Lear, to an unforgettable gallery of cinematic disguises. There were the Ealing Studio roles (most famously as eight members of one family in 1949's Kind Hearts...
Judging from his clothing and his features, locals say, the man was an Afghan from across the border. But nobody in Kaniguram, a mountain hamlet in the Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan, could say why he had been slaughtered just a few weeks ago. The Pakistani police have no jurisdiction; their command in the tribal areas extends only 100 yards off any main road. And tribal authorities have no interest in tangling with the man's killers, whom locals assume are linked to al-Qaeda. Kaniguram, residents say, is a main thoroughfare for al-Qaeda and Taliban militants...
...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...nanoscopic hamlet of Top Station is the highest point on the road from Munnar to Kodaikanal and lies smack in the scruffy workaday heart of Kerala's main tea-growing region. Innumerable tons of the stuff that fills breakfast mugs around the world originates here, on the 1,600-meter-high ranges of the western Ghats. In the last days of the Raj, white planters came in their grateful droves, lured by the green hills and tolerable climate. Today, though, this is the domain of Indian agribusiness, and you'll barely see a non-Indian face. The only visitors tend...
...build a city is, of course, what every architect dreams of. Adjaye is getting there, one building at a time. Earlier this year the borough of Tower Hamlet in London's rough-edged East End broke ground on his largest project to date, a library so up to the minute--with its cafes and retail space, escalator atrium and digital displays across the exterior walls--that the lackluster term library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye...