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Courts and prosecutors approach the matter with some puzzlement. In 1990 J. Tom Morgan, now the district attorney of DeKalb County, Georgia, decided not to press charges of child molestation against a South American woman suspected of stroking her male toddler's genitals, having concluded that "this is the way her culture taught her to put healthy young boys to sleep." Four years earlier, however, he had brought a Somali woman to trial for allegedly performing a clitoridectomy, traditional in some parts of Africa, on her two- year-old niece. In 1989 Dong Lu Chen, a Chinese immigrant...
...rival for not sleeping withhis lover. The most significant subplot involvesthe physical decline of one of Camille's agingformer teachers, who tellingly describes the youngCamille as "a smooth, hard little girl" withunderlying passions. Stephane's eventual role inthe death of this man, underplayed as it is,focuses our puzzlement about him: who is this guy,and why doesn't he have any feelings...
...cause trouble for them." Fans view a charismatic commissioner, like the late Bart Giamatti, as their tribune, the only person in the game who stands for something more than economic self- interest. But many owners just don't get it. Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins, asks with puzzlement, "Why does finding a commissioner get more public attention than choosing the chairman...
...majestic in its broken dark-green underwater light, was The Raising of Lazarus, circa 1929, which he worked up from a composite photo of a life-size articulated dummy being delivered to his London studio. For by now, Sickert's interests were shifting decisively to photography -- much to the puzzlement of the London art world. Photos were common speech, immediate, iconic but not "sensitive." They stood the Impressionist cult of the nuance on its head. And turning the black-and-white of photography back into color represented a fascinating challenge for a tonal painter like Sickert...
These days, many Americans would be hard pressed to name any world leader aside from, perhaps, Boris Yeltsin. Imagine the puzzlement if U.S. headline writers began invoking first names like Helmut (Kohl) or Kiichi (Miyazawa). But all through Europe, Bill and Hillary have suddenly become as familiar as other one-word American icons like Madonna, Magic and McDonald's. Is this Clinton mania merely the latest manifestation of the one eternally booming U.S. industry -- the creation of international celebrities -- or does it speak to something larger about the worldwide perception of both America and its new President-elect...