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...Alexei, in the meantime, adapts to the regime by joining the Communist Party and becomes romantically involved with a woman that shares their apartment. Marie eventually finds an ally in Sacha, a young man whose grandmother was arrested and killed after a neighbor overheard her speaking French with Marie and subsequently denounced her to the secret police...
...Comparing one's progress to his neighbor's provides essential workout motivation. The selection of a competitor involves several considerations such as age, weight, athleticism and whether or not his or her workout stats are visible in a mirror reflection. If not, people inevitably stare at the brunette with the long ponytail for inspiration. It's okay because she wants people to stare at her. That's why she wore the bikini top and booty shorts...
...political and cultural crossroads. Soon after the country turned 50, the newly formed Indian government tested its nuclear weapons in a display of nationalism. While Western media largely blamed the conflict with rival Pakistan for the testing, India was in fact wary of the growing power of China, its neighbor to the north, with whom India fought a war in 1962. American collaboration with the Chinese (who were already supplying Pakistan with nuclear technology) seemed to defy logic to the Indians, who had already seen America support military dictatorships in Pakistan during the Cold War. As a result, Indo-American...
...history. Two years later he went to Chechnya when Russia made its first ham-fisted attempt to suppress the breakaway republic that it has recently bombed into submission again. He went to Bosnia and Kosovo, where words have failed over and again to convey the sheer sadism of what neighbor did to neighbor...
...unnerving bits of modern flotsam. In a Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire a young man lies dead in a heap of used plastic intravenous bags. Elsewhere in the camp the corpses are pushed into piles by bulldozers. In Chechnya a man's body leans against a wall while a neighbor helps himself to a carton of American cigarettes that the dead man had been carrying. Then someone else steals his hat and leaves his frozen body in the snow...