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...Asian financial crisis impoverished millions, fueling street protests against Suharto's kleptocratic government. Christians and Muslims warred in Ambon; the nation of 17,000 islands "seemed to be breaking up and slowly sinking." Nowhere was the violence more barbaric than on the island of Borneo, where Lloyd Parry chases down news of tribal fighting between the Dayaks, one of the island's indigenous tribes, and the Madurese, transplants from Java. Penetrating the jungle, he doesn't find fighting so much as slaughter, and worse. The Dayaks, rumored to possess black magic that renders them impervious to bullets, have massacred entire...
...Chang has taken that experience a step further?he's making art out of the insanity. In his 2002 book I Do, I Do, I Do, the Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried beneath the heavy makeup, the costumes, the confetti, the expectations. In his newest book Double Happiness, Chang...
Madagascar twists the fish-out-of-water premise into animals-out-of-zoo. A lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), a zebra (Chris Rock), a giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) forsake the friendly confines of Central Park Zoo and end up on you-know-which island off Africa. The plot, by co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and co-writers Mark Burton and Billy Frolick, asks whether a carnivore, the lion, can keep from eating his friends...
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...Puerto Rico, both major candidates in last year's gubernatorial race pledged to respect gay rights. And after the March cruise-ship incident, Nevis Tourism Minister Malcolm Guishard took pains to try to defuse anger over the flap, calling it an "unfortunate but isolated" event and stressing that his island "welcomes any sexual orientation." -By Tim Padgett