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...illegal timber. Often there's not enough work to go around, and sometimes?for example, when the dredgers run out of fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags, "and one of us is always ill." Nearby, a dying 18-month-old child, as skeletal as a famine victim, clung to a slightly older sister pot-bellied with disease. Just offshore, tourist boats skimmed past on day trips to more photogenic places...
...unrest mutated and spread in the following days. I watched truckloads of armed soldiers thunder through Mandalay's ill-lit streets. Some areas were placed under curfew; people said it had been more than a year since the city had been so tense. Then troops opened fire on a crowd of protesting monks, killing at least two and injuring many. From nearby towns came reports of more disturbances, news of which arrived in Mandalay on buses and trucks and spread with viral stealth through the city's network of trishaw drivers. Hiring one to check out the dark, deserted streets...
...this is the first Streetcar I’ve seen where Mitch, not Stanley, is the one with the taciturn attitude and the undercurrent of animalism. In the text, Mitch and Blanche mesh well because they can share their personal tragedies (Mitch’s mother is terminally ill, while Blanche drove her gay husband to suicide); when they’re together in this staging, it almost feels like a couple of Marat/Sade lunatics are taking a stab at their scenes...
...later, the organization has been split between older members who would accept an unconditional truce and younger militants who would only countenance such a move if the government made concessions, such as moving ETA prisoners from jails elsewhere in Spain to those in the Basque Country. ETA may be ill-prepared to adjust to the new post-3/11 reality. "Unlike the I.R.A., in ETA we don't see a strategy to turn the lights off," says Kepa Aulestia, a Basque political analyst and former member of the Spanish parliament. "Every ETA member has two voices inside: one asking...
...General Education was in its time; the Core curriculum also; Columbia’s two-year mandatory program in the Western tradition; the University of Chicago’s Great Books curriculum in its time. All you can say is that these schools produced both well-trained and ill-trained students,” says Vendler...