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...tiny blue chairs set up in rows, a group of young children begin their lessons at a makeshift preschool in northern Sri Lanka. They listen to stories, learn their colors, giggle, fidget and cry. The children are among thousands of Tamils who have fled their homes in the past 12 months, as the Sri Lankan army has surged toward the end of a 25-year war against an armed separatist movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Government officials and the aid agencies that help maintain the camp where these children live call them "internally displaced persons" (IDPs...
...dark blue suit, a vibrant tie and French cuffs. 9. FM: And what would you say?MK: I wouldn’t say anything, because what she’s experiencing right now is more profound and compelling than what I’m experiencing. I would sit and listen to what she had to tell me, and then I’d ask for a raise. 10. FM: Now say you’re having a one-on-one meeting with Oscar Wilde. You know, theoretically. Would you be wearing the same ensemble?MK: I would probably wear...
...always list older musicians as your influences yet you are very active in the contemporary indie scene. You worked on albums with Beth Orton and Cat Power and you co-produced one of Jenny Lewis's albums. Do you listen to contemporary stuff now? Not as much as I listen to older music. I'm definitely inspired by music that's happening today and the music of my friends, but my biggest influences are still older records...
...Listen to photographer Kadir van Lohuizen chronicle the time he spent in the killing fields of Darfur...
...veiled criticism of how the U.S. has conducted its war in Afghanistan. There has been too much of a focus on the fight, he says, and not enough on development. "I wanted to show the conflict between ordinary Afghans and the foreign soldiers who don't know how to listen." Even if the message is heavy, his touch is light, a tactic to make the criticism easier to swallow. In one scene the soldiers fantasize about having multiple wives, while the refugee-clan patriarch, who has three, drowns his sorrows in opium smoke. Each wife has her own abandoned tank...