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Turkey is knocking on the European Union's door. Whether it gets in or not depends on the commitment of the Turkish parliament to political and economic reform. But it may also depend on one M.P. who has transformed herself from an internist at a provincial hospital into a human...
In October, Karachi police received reports that a mummy was being offered for sale to "big foreigners," including an unidentified ambassador. A 50-minute amateur video of the mummy, with a 1990 date stamp, featured close-ups of its gold crown and breastplate. The asking price: $10 million. The possession...
Yet life in Matapari’s small Congolese village is not all traditional African magicians and self-important Catholic missionaries, characters that have become almost standard in African post-colonial fiction since Chinua Achebe’s classic Things Fall Apart. Set in the 1980s and 1990s amid political...
The Philippines may well need a moral revival. Though illegal, live sex acts still grind away in Manila's sleazy bar districts. Video porn is easily available, and far cheaper than a movie ticket. The President's men recently banned pornographic videos on long-haul buses, but nothing has been...
There were about 30 people in the audience, and three of them were men. On the one hand, that is a strong turnout for a poetry reading, but on the other hand it is a particular one. The venue, Radcliffe, and the nature of its publicity network probably circumscribed the...