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...midday. He walks toward what was once a busy junction in the town and claims that the giant swamp that now obscures the ground hides 500 more corpses. To prove his point, he walks over to a marshy landscape of tires, rafters and mud. "There," he says, with a note of triumph, pointing to yet another body, lying in the open. "We are standing on bodies right...
...cigarette smoke," her novel has several scents, some lovely, some harsh. Having had success with self-mutilation and prostitution, she's taking on a less physical anguish in her next novel. It's about a 15-year-old girl whose brother is killed in Iraq. Awards committees, take note...
Marcia Johnson, 62, of Wellington, Fla., a married mother of three and a former dancer, received a diagnosis of anorexia a dozen years ago, although she now recognizes that she showed symptoms of it by puberty. Binckley and Johnson note that their nonstop focus on food and body image slowed down when they were cooking meals for their growing children. Then as middle age set in, a sense of loss--a feeling that's particularly acute for anorexics at midlife--set off a flare-up. "The loss of order--brought on by a change in job status, marriage, children...
...They actually give out condoms for free here. PM: Is that because you’re there and you’re such a stud? RR: Absolutely. PM: Are pregnancies down because of the free condoms? RR: Well I haven’t gotten anybody pregnant. On that note, I think this interview is complete. PM: Just remember when you sell out you will have crushed all your dreams and hopes...
...liberal. Instead of immediately writing off international law as irrelevant and advocating an all-powerful executive (as would, say, John C. Yoo ’89 of torture memo notoriety), Kennedy concludes that nations should rather weigh ethical considerations outside of the bounds of the law. Kennedy does note that international law has its importance in determining what constitutes a just war, but he makes a convincing case that the law’s “humanitarian potential”—its ability to prompt humanitarian interventions in places like Bosnia and Darfur—is overstated...