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...results as "analogue family." "You may find that friends, godparents and the like become absorbed into the family structure," she says. "The nature of family is becoming much more networked and loose." Nuclear Explosions Ironically, Maggie Alderson's latest work of fiction, Cents and Sensibility, centers on a family light-years from her own tight, nuclear unit. It's a patchwork, stitched together from the remnants of previous partnerships; Alderson's tale involves so many offspring that the heroine's father's sixth wife keeps track of her 13 siblings and stepsiblings on a flow chart. Felix Zavelberg might find...
...baby hake on the menu at El Rodat in Javea, Spain, is a marvel of equilibrium. At once intensely flavorful and delicately light, it is the sort of exquisite dish you would expect from a chef who began his education at Barcelona's top culinary school and later apprenticed with Alain Ducasse in Paris. But the secret to Sergio Torres' fish lies less with the young other stories...
...agenda for a diplomatic process that was intended to resolve on a comprehensive basis all of the bilateral differences between the United States and Iran.” How the HRC overlooked the proposal is anyone’s guess, but the extent of their hypocrisy in light of Khatami’s offer is mind-blowing. Of course, none of this is to say that Khatami should go without criticism. His views on homosexuality are disgraceful, but neither is vitriolic hatred of gays unseen nor unheard in America. Presiding over a government guilty of human rights abuses is also...
...power in Kabul. Not only was there a natural affinity between the ethnic Pashtun movement and Pakistan's own Pashtun communities in the westernmost provinces that had helped support the Afghan anti-Soviet jihad, but Pakistan saw the Taliban as a protector of its own regional interests, particularly in light of Indian support for its rivals in the Northern Alliance...
...President Boris Tadic of Serbia focused on the normalization process currently underway in the region, which is still struggling to recover from the wars and ethnic cleansing of the previous decade. “If your hatred were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire city,” Tadic said of past strife, quoting Nikola Tesla, whom Tadic called “the man Serbia and Croatia celebrate together.” Tadic argued that giving independence to Kosovo—a region in Serbia that underwent ethnic cleansing under the Slobodan...