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Drawn from his official reports and private papers, Thomson depicts in matter-of-fact prose arduous months of roaming harsh northeastern Arnhem Land with indigenous guides. Unlike in other areas, where Aborigines had already been dispersed, regular interracial contact was new there, and traditional life intact. Thomson's determination to live as the locals did - learning the language, eating bush food and attending sacred ceremonies - makes for a compelling insider's view. The objects of study soon became companions, as he realized when he left to write his final report: "I knew and loved the Arnhem Land people...
...skin disease, plots revenge on all those who have loved him not quite enough. I?d call it, with Krzysztof Kieslowski?s ?Decalog,? the great film of the 80s. Now it?s available on DVD, with all the usual add-ons, and with Michael Gambon?s searing central performance intact. A must-buy: your intellectual life is incomplete without...
...creating would disintegrate in the blast he planned for Pervez Musharraf. If he did, he was wrong. Not only did he and a second car bomber fail to kill Musharraf in their Dec. 25 attempt, but the memory card of Jamil's cell phone, which investigators found intact amid the detritus of the blasts, has led authorities to dozens of suspected collaborators. Many belong to a violent Pakistani extremist group, Jaish-e-Muhammad. Once allied with Musharraf's government, the group is now linked to al-Qaeda, whose leader, Osama bin Laden, called for Musharraf's overthrow in a recent...
...coincide with the opening of the film. In the hour-long walking tour, visitors can see where the idea for the tunnel was hatched by Union soldiers as they looked across a railroad ravine at the entrenched Confederate troops. The opening to the 5 ft.-tall tunnel is still intact, and the crater is still there, although a bit smaller than it was in the 19th century...
...believing, and vice versa. We experience attraction and sexual desire as a sort of magic, a phenomenon filled with delightful mystery. And if scientists continue to be overwhelmed by the complex interplay of dozens of substances percolating from mind to body and back, that keeps the mystery nicely intact. --Reported by Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles