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...hospital but refused to take another for fear of seeming to align themselves with either side. The extent of their unwitting role in sparking the conflict - when their pig was stolen one night - still troubles Connolly. As does the memory of hurrying to the side of their friend Popina Mai after he was hit by an arrow and of Connolly's first question: "Can we film?" The resulting footage is profoundly moving, but 14 years on Connolly writes of his "cold-blooded prioritising" that day: "I can offer no defence. That's how it was, that's what...
...Sixty hours of footage were distilled into the 90 minutes of Black Harvest, and Connolly's reflective, droll prose further illuminates an extraordinary year. Characters from the documentary - like gentle clan leader Popina Mai, whose hopes would be broken before the year was out - come more fully to life in Connolly's lively retelling, as do the Highlands, steeped in old ways and oratory, yet riven by fighting. The book also does much to answer the question that teased the film's audience: How did two white foreigners, along with their two-year-old daughter, manage among people...
...recent actions. First, he appeared to side with religious bigots opposed to a mixed-gender "mini-marathon" in Lahore and failed to condemn the police harassment of the race's supporters, including leading human-rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Then he backed a travel ban on gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai, preventing her from rallying support abroad for her cause. Under pressure from the U.S., the government has since granted her permission to leave Pakistan, though now that her case is being heard by the Supreme Court, she will stay for the duration...
...excused for wondering if it really is English they speak there. The accent is but a minor distraction; it's the words that stop newcomers in their tracks. Newspapers refer casually to tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after 16 years away and felt like a foreigner...
Security was also lax inside the company, Boyce stated. He broke the seals on code books and photographed them; the tampering was noticed but ignored. Clerks in TRW's "black vault," where National Security Agency codes were stored, "used the code-destruction blender for making banana daiquiris and mai tais...