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...backbone of the narrative, which Mo Yan says had been percolating in his head since the early 1980s. "The reason I postponed the writing of Frog was because I had too much to work on, not the sensitivity of the topic," he says. "And anyway, there's no law that prohibits writing...
...This area is going down the khazi!" The speaker's use of the archaic Britishism identifies him as an Englishman of a certain age. Having been winged by a beer can during a fight among schoolkids in a Barking McDonald's, he's shocked and furious. "I want law and order," he tells Liberal Democrat Carman, who happens to be canvassing voters in the street outside. "That's why the BNP is the only choice." (Read: "Why Angry British Voters Are Tuning In to Bigots...
...other for asserting, as he did on March 16, that the U.S. would kill Osama bin Laden rather than capture and interrogate him. But Holder says he's adhering to principles he adopted over the years as an unforgiving criminal prosecutor. And it's Holder's experience in the law-enforcement system that makes him such a strong believer in its ability to put terrorists like KSM away forever. "We should have great faith in the resilience of our systems, the resilience of our people, the toughness that has always separated Americans from other peoples in this world, and that...
Every movement needs a creation myth, and the gourmet-food-truck movement has a really good one. In 1996, Roy Choi, a law-school dropout and a general disappointment to his Korean-immigrant parents, was watching the Food Network one afternoon, eating Cheetos while coming down from some serious drugs, when suddenly Emeril Lagasse started talking directly to him. "He came out of the TV," Choi recalls, "and said, 'Smell this. Touch this. Taste this. Do something...
...security forces to produce several of the missing in court. Now, some media commentators are suggesting that Chaudhry is retreating from that fight. Chaudhry's supporters deny the claim, and say that the court will not shy away from prosecuting any security officials who have broken the law...