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...Victim. And there was no sign that the U.S. would be recognized as fighting the people's cause. Of Laos' 2,000,000 inhabitants, only about half are ethnic Lao, who inhabit the fertile river valleys and the seats of government. But the tribal groups in the hills and remote jungle have never knuckled under to any central government. The Kha of the south still offer up human sacrifices at their marriage feasts, traditionally choosing as victim the grandfather of the bride...
...east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows (and curtains--all the same shade of gold) at approximately the same time; those of us to the west hibernate in the afternoon because of the same windows and curtains; all of us inhabit cells which are precisely the same size, and our bathrooms are situated one under the other, layer after layer. This, I submit, is mass culture--unmitigated, a monumental exercise in poor taste...
Ayub spoke plainly on his view of the long-festering problem of refugees along the Israeli border, where more than a million Palestinians-those who fled or were ejected by Israel, and the children born to them since-still inhabit squalid detention camps in Jordan, Syria and the Gaza Strip. The Arabs have let the U.N. look after them, arguing that to provide the refugees with permanent homes and jobs would seem to be acquiescing in the existence of Israel. Ayub remarked pointedly that after partition, his own Pakistan made room for 9,000,000 Moslem refugees from India...
...Warner) is a friendly, fairly shrewd but not really profound look at some inhabitants of a small Oklahoma town. The time is the early 19205. and this is William Inge country-several hundred miles safely north of the swamps of Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers. but still south of that region where Booth Tar-kington's characters inhabit a perpetual fishworm and firecracker July. The people in the film made from Inge's 1957 Broadway hit have problems, but they do not include necrophilia, cannibalism or self-mutilation with garden shears; the difficulties are the sort a strong...
...vicar of Putney and vice chairman of the Church Fellowship for Psychical Studies, "the spirit is not a little fellow with horns and a tail. But if the human spirit is immortal-the basis of Christian teaching-why should not some spirits feel lost after death and come to inhabit another body?" In any case, he went on, "an evil-or, as I prefer to call it, 'low-grade'-spirit should always be prayed for with great compassion." Vicar Higgins' gentle formula for exorcism: "Depart into the realm of light instead of into outer darkness, from which...