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...folks in our neighborhood are hard to operate on. They are suspicious. They ran away, years ago, from war and hunger and government officials making powerful speeches. They escaped places they loved, where they first had plenty, then enough and then nothing. They made the boat but the new land of opportunity was also one of educated opportunists and swindlers - the diplomas on my wall don't impress them. It takes a while to gain their trust...
...public shaming of feng shui hasn't stopped at that. In October, the property developer Henderson Land was derided for assigning whimsical numbers to the top levels of a luxury apartment building in order to make them accord with local numerology, which holds that 6 and 8 are auspicious. Record prices were paid for so-called 68th-floor and 88th-floor duplexes when in reality they were on the 43rd and 44th floors and the 45th and 46th floors respectively. Shortly after, bloggers chortled and tabloids leered over the case of a 55-year-old bulldozer operator who was accused...
...fitting thought for cartoonist Joe Sacco to include at the outset of his latest piece of visual journalism. The unique form in which he operates--reportage translated into comic-book panels--is perfect for conflating time: then, now, it's all the same. Especially in the Gaza Strip, a land haunted by decades of bloodshed and oppression. Sacco, whose previous works include Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, investigates a pair of events, from November 1956, in which Israeli soldiers massacred hundreds of residents of the towns of Rafah and Khan Younis during the Suez Canal crisis. His reporting on those...
...year-old lawsuit over royalties owed to Native Americans for use of tribal lands has finally drawn to a tentative close. The U.S. announced it would pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it underpaid beneficiaries and mismanaged revenue from land it holds in trust for more than 300,000 Native Americans under an 1887 law. (The government oversees leases of land for mining, oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing and other uses.) The Federal Government also agreed to create a $60 million higher-education scholarship fund for Native American students. President Obama called the proposed settlement in Cobell...
Fonseka wins praise for leading the final ground campaign against the Tigers, and for setting aside seniority to promote talented, effective junior commanders. But military analysts say the last push on land would not have been effective without the Navy, who cut off the Tigers? vital supply line and escape route by sea. "Sarath Fonseka could not have won the war, if not for the crucial support he received from Secretary Defense Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the other service chiefs, especially the navy and air chiefs and the intelligence agencies," says Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Center for Political Violence...