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...attack helicopters swept in over the brow of the hill and fired incendiary bombs into the wheat field. Villagers ran for cover. It was the second attack in less than 12 hours. In the early hours of this morning, a group of Russian jets bombed a cement factory and railway line in a neighboring village. In nearby Gori, the hospital was attacked; a Dutch journalist was killed...
...Afrikaner nationalist figure. In the late 1970s and early '80s, "Evita" lampooned the establishment in a series of satirical diaries. Later, with the help of a wig, heels and a handbag, she became real. Black and white alike loved the subversion. Then, in 1996, Uys took over a derelict railway station in Darling, a semidesert town an hour's drive north of Cape Town, and turned it into a cabaret called Evita Se Perron...
...does. We're in the late '50s, when TV had come into even the poorest homes and a gallon of gas cost 30 cents. We get a glimpse of the Victorian houses that had once been Bunker Hill's elitist pride and were now slum abodes. The Angels Flight railway, the movie theater, the Ritz Bar are seen in their full functioning glory. Since the people in The Exiles rehearsed some of their scenes, the movie may not fit the precise definition of a documentary. But it is a precious document of a vanished culture. (The film is eloquently excerpted...
...turn what might have been a base for a festering separatist problem into a race-relations issue. Just as Inner Mongolia, now 70% Han, has been Sinicized, so too are Xinjiang and Tibet being flooded with Chinese arrivals. In Tibet, the migration has been assisted by a $4.1 billion railway completed in mid-2006 that connects Beijing to Lhasa...
...born in Kampala, Uganda. My ancestors had moved there from India, part of a wave of migration that began in the 1880s, when the British brought over Indian indentured laborers to build the East African railway. They were followed by Indian entrepreneurs and the impoverished, all hoping to make good in that fecund land...