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...headline “Iraq War Ends.” There’s a book on the shelf called “Cinema Now.” We eat crackers and hummus while everyone winds down, and I look at the Clash’s “London Calling” poster, Paul Simonon smashing his guitar...
...presence of victorious corruption” that Marlow senses in Colonel Kurtz. “There is no doubt the brute has courage—a horrid, fearful courage, and endurance, and a cunning mind too... This is an educated man of a sort, who has lived long in London, knows the meanings of his crimes and their true aspect in all civilized eyes...
...full up’ with atrocities and horrors,” wrote Roger Casement in a letter to the British Foreign Office in March 1911. Casement, a diplomat and activist, had just returned to London from the Amazon jungle, where he had spent several months investigating the rumoured exploitation of Barbadian workers—at that time, British subjects—by a rubber manufacturing company. The Peruvian Amazon Company, Casement found, was abusing not only its Barbadian employees, but also enslaving and terrorizing the local Indian population. In the years following these revelations, until his death in 1916, Casement...
...missed. Located at Rawlins, a vibrantly colored village of colonial clapperboard chattel houses at Herbert Heights, the Coal Pot, tel: (1-869) 665 6926, offers stunning views from its 365-meter elevation and a menu of local favorites from chef Llewellyn Clarke, who trained at London's Le Caprice and Ivy restaurants. Try the seared local fish with thyme...
...those left, especially children, specific tribal tongues have given way to a pidgin Andamani dialect of Hindi. Boa Sr was in effect their last link to the olden days. "It's the end of thousands upon thousands of years of history," says Miriam Ross, spokeswoman for Survival International, a London-based NGO that defends the rights of tribal peoples. "A whole way of looking at the world is finished, and there's no way of bringing it back...