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MEHEBA, Zambia—Jean Zawadi doesn’t look like a fighter at first glance. With her tightly twisted hair, colorful “chitenge” (skirt) and sorrowful eyes, Jean paints the picture of a powerless African refugee, rather than a crusader for justice. And because Jean is both of these things, she is now in serious danger.A few months ago, Jean’s fourteen-year-old daughter Dayaka was raped in Meheba Refugee Camp. She is now pregnant, out of school, and severely depressed. Her desperate mother has gone to the police, camp NGOs...
...questioning. But then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return Guantánamo Bay, a remnant of colonial imperialism, to Cuba. Jean-Paul Debattice Brussels Going into Gaza "Search & destroy" [July 10], on Israel's raid against Hamas during the search for a kidnapped soldier, stated that "Gaza militants have fired homemade rockets at Israeli towns, usually missing but causing some injuries and great misery." Women and children have been injured...
...picked up by radio technicians in studios around the country as they waited for the President's broadcast. In 2004, senior Spanish Socialist Jose Bono was taped at a party meeting quietly telling a colleague that Tony Blair was an "imbecile" and "a complete d___head." Canadian PM Jean Chretien annoyed his American neighbors with some careless tittle-tattle at a 1997 NATO summit in Madrid. "In your country and my country, all the American politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes," he told Belgian leader Jean-Luc Dehaene and, unwittingly, Canadian broadcaster CBC. In 1993, British...
...Mademoiselle Jean, tel: (32-2) 513 5069, www.mademoisellejean.com, where, amid black padded walls studded with pink ribbons, designer Aurore Jean makes sexy, one-off 1950s-inspired pieces. Ribbons, bows and lingerie feature in her skirts, catsuits and baby-doll tops, and handmade corsets are her speciality...
...know something of the work of French dramatist Jean Genet, whose plays are usually associated with Antonin Artaud’s theater of cruelty, and of the style of director Jess R. Burkle ’06, whose spring production, “Knock,” was lauded for its dark comedy. However, I wasn’t prepared for the abject violence of this new script, nor the calculation with which Burkle’s cast and crew approached it. It never lifted my spirits, but its intelligence and precision were overwhelming...