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...Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature’s own autobiography, Ninochka was a project years in the making. Boym’s unique experience with history imbues the novel, turning it from an avant-garde murder mystery into an insightful commentary on the plight of those hindered by life from achieving what they think they want...
...further public protests. Going Public on Abuse SAUDI ARABIA Popular television presenter Rania al-Baz, above, who said she was beaten unconscious by her husband, allowed pictures of her bruised and battered face to be published in what she described as a bid to draw attention to the plight of women in the deeply conservative country. A Clean Sweep SOUTH AFRICA The African National Congress Party of President Thabo Mbeki won 70% of the votes in national elections. The two-thirds majority gives the A.N.C. the power to change the constitution, though it says it will...
...settlement activity. But today's Iraq coalition has negligible participation by Arab allies, and the U.S. invasion of Iraq has turned most of their citizenry against the U.S. - it's not as if U.S. standing in the Arab world could fall much further. Except, perhaps, inside Iraq: the plight of the Palestinians is an issue close to the heart of many Iraqis, more so since they became an occupied people themselves. Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin drew a firestorm of criticism across the political spectrum in Iraq, and became a rallying point for anti-American violence...
...Sharon's plight has made him a lonely man. Up at 5 a.m., he spends most of his time out of public view, working hard to maintain a sense of calm in his office even as his aides charge about outside the door in a flurry of diplomatic, legal and political activity. Last month, when he made a rare visit to the Knesset cafeteria for a lunch of chicken soup and schnitzel, not a single legislator approached his table to join him. Each night Sharon takes a helicopter from his office in Jerusalem to his Negev home, Sycamore Ranch. When...
...proven surprisingly tenacious, and U.S. military actions against Sadr supporters in the Shiite slums of Baghdad have also provoked widespread outrage in Iraq's majority ethnic community. The two-front insurrection and the tough response by the U.S. has even had an ironic nation-building effect, as the plight of the besieged city has become an anti-American rallying point across Iraq's traditional Sunni-Shiite divide. Thousands of impoverished Shiites in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood have stepped forward to donate blood and food supplies for Fallujah's defenders, while portraits of the Shiite firebrand Sadr have been carried...