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...story of those who died in Tak Bai began on Monday, Oct. 25, a sultry day with the promise of rain in the air. That morning, about 2,000 Muslim villagers?men, women and children?gathered in a small park across the road from the police station. They had come to demand freedom for six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. But the authorities were in no mood to oblige. In the station courtyard stood hundreds of heavily armed police and soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either...
Such is the life of Susan Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief, on which the movie Adaptation is based. Last Wednesday evening, a crowd of fans slogged through the rain to the Brattle Theater to hear Orlean read selections from her latest book My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, a collection of short pieces that Orlean has written over the years, all dealing with the theme of “journeys...
...29—returns to Tsai’s recurring delight in using water and the sound of footsteps, as we are led by a crippled maid through the hollow auditorium and the dilapidated back corridors of a theatre on the last night before its closing. As the rain pours outside, the warriors on the screen ambush and jostle, and a quiet, intricate drama unfolds among the audience...
...Rain fell...
...rain pounded, the wind raged and the drenched Harvard men’s golf team found itself unable to cope with the harsh conditions...