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...Kashmir imbroglio. (Pakistan wanted to call it a "dispute"; India insisted on the more watery "issue.") As television commentators haggle over semantic scraps and militants vow to step up their jihad, mourning continues in Kashmir?and not only for the recent dead. A few hundred people gather to lay a foundation stone for a memorial to the 4,000-5,000 people who have "disappeared" since 1989?those arrested by Indian security forces and never seen again. The site is at Idgah, outside Srinagar, next to the Mazar-e-Shohda Muslim cemetery, where thousands of the conflict's dead, including...
...dragon? Five? Six? Ten? Fitz had lost count. But he reckoned he went to the den almost every night and paid Ton, the scraggly opium dealer with a green-and-blue dragon tattooed on his thin upper arm, 50 per pipe to get him off. He lay there, watching the dragon coil and uncoil as Ton flexed his arms, working to heat the night-colored opium, mixing the paste with Mr. Headache powder and then rolling it between his palms into cylinders. He broke off pieces from the roll he heated on a metal poker over an oil lamp...
...belonging to his grandfather and returned to the school, where he stood outside Grunow?s classroom and demanded to see his girlfriend. Grunow did not take him seriously enough, so he cocked the gun. Then he fired one bullet, which struck Grunow in the head. As his favorite teacher lay dying, Nate...
...from the age of three, my father devoted the whole of his existence to the Kabuki stage, living many lives through his many roles. Following each of three operations for lung cancer over the past seven-and-a-half years, he returned right away to the stage. As he lay in intensive care, I told him, "You've worked too hard." Tears appeared in his eyes. I can only wonder what those tears said. Drama is life. For the life of the mind and of the arts, he staked...
Florence worked the streets even as the war raged around her. She had come from a village, dirt poor and with nowhere to live. In Freetown she made $1 every time she lay down with a man. Turn 10 tricks a night, as she often did, and she was rich. People called her names and stared at her when she passed by, but most of the time she was left alone. Until the night the soldiers came. "They beat us up and used us and took our money," she says, just a few blocks from where eight government soldiers repeatedly...