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...With reporting by Nadia Mustafa and Julie Rawe/New York and Karen Tumulty/Washington
While Richey acknowledged that the mid-year distribution is not ideal, she said she, guide Editor Peggy Lim ’01 and Director of the Ann Radcliffe Trust Karen E. Avery ’87 decided to go ahead with distribution rather than waiting any longer...
...Kyaw Aung, who was kidnapped by the military at age 14, says his company once tied a Karen elder suspected of being a rebel sympathizer to a post. His sergeant ordered Kyaw Aung to gut the prisoner from neck to groin. "I had no choice," says Kyaw Aung, another recent deserter. "If I hadn't done it, the sergeant would have had the other soldiers tie me up and cut me open...
...only Lizier appears to be satisfied. All the others have disappointed themselves, but Lizier is unburdened by her actions. Craig seems to identify with Lizier in terms of her beliefs; in the afterword to The Good Men, she notes that her mother’s people, the Karen of Burma, have an animistic belief system which does not include the dualisms of body and soul, heaven and earth, that are so much a part of the Western tradition. It is through Lizier, then, that Craig offers her option...
Lizier, like the Karen, makes no distinction between the holy and the physical. Sex is not sin to her, but glory. She feels that she, the birds, the water and the trees “are of life, and so, she senses, everlasting.” Craig’s stunning, engaging first novel ends with a silent suggestion made by the trees above Lizier’s head, urging her, and us, to simply “live, live, bloom...