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...include indigenous people in its population counts. Thirty years later, a white man who liked them was, he wrote, "regarded as an eccentric." By then the young anthropologist was seeing official attitudes to Aborigines up close on Cape York. In 1932 he photographed three Aboriginal men chained neck to neck, sentenced without trial by a mission superintendent to lifelong exile on Palm Island. The image, reproduced in Thomson, shows them beginning a 380-km walk with police riding behind them. As desolate as the image is, Thomson wrote, "it gives no idea of the misery of the scene...
...walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another in the neck and died. Dhahir was luckier. Three slugs went into his left shoulder and one punched a hole in his right hand, but he survived. "It was a well-planned operation," says Dhahir, who has returned to work at the station in downtown Baghdad. "They were terrorists...
...tall man in an open-neck shirt, jacket and trousers looked like any of the traveling merchants who frequent the area. When he was stopped at a Kurdish checkpoint near Kalar, officials made an intriguing discovery in his travel bag: two CDs and a computer flash disc the size of a cigarette lighter. With a hunch who their catch was--the CIA had given them a heads-up that he might be in the area--the Kurdish officials snapped a digital mug shot of the traveler and e-mailed it to their American intelligence contacts. The confirmation came back quickly...
...hidden its animosity for Aristide - it has held back a half-billion dollars in international aid since 2000 to pressure Aristide to conduct democratic elections. And Haiti is a desperately poor country. So it's pretty obvious that the Bush administration is not going to stick its neck out for Aristide. But the problem is that what comes after Aristide may turn out to be an even worse headache...
...know what I did today?” he says. “I sat outside The Garage and watched people fall on the ice.” He’s restless, fingering the tattoos of Japanese characters and a cross he has on either side of his neck. “Physically, my body is telling me to go to sleep, but my mind is telling me to stay awake because I’d miss something. Except nothing ever happens.” How long has he been awake? “Days. Weeks. Years. It never...