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...spent the last four years trying to become, against the odds, an in-control, together person, the thought of being shoved out into the world on someone else’s terms was difficult to stomach. So I didn’t. Until, about a week ago, when the rash appeared, covering my arms in quarter-sized, red, itchy bumps, and resisting my every effort to suppress...
...them than that it’s hard to tell why exactly. I racked my brain—was it the suspiciously cheap sushi I ate for dinner? The alcohol-drenched lifestyle I was leading? The dust bunnies-turned-basketballs gathering around my bed? While my anxiety mounted, my rash burned brighter, spreading to my neck. I finally fell asleep after slathering myself with Benadryl cream, and woke up the next morning, rash-free...
Jane says her 10-year-old son starting showing symptoms of the measles - swollen lymph nodes and a fever - about 10 days after returning to the States. He seemed to recover, and she sent him back to school after a few days. The following day the boy developed a rash. He visited his doctor, but the measles diagnosis did not come for about a week. In the meantime the boy had again returned to school, carrying the disease into a school with a population of children whose parents choose not to immunize. All told, 12 children between 10 months...
...than 40 people were killed and thousands left homeless as a wave of anti-immigrant violence swept through the shantytowns around Johannesburg. President Thabo Mbeki was eventually compelled to send troops to quell vengeful mobs that rampaged against migrants from neighboring nations, whom they blame for everything from a rash of robberies to taking away jobs in a nation racked by high unemployment. Despite astoundingly high rates of violent crime in South Africa (mob violence aside, some 52 people are murdered every 24 hours), many Zimbabweans in particular have poured into the country to escape their own nation's economic...
...favor. It's also the consensus that this session of Cannes, where more than half the competing films have already been shown, is a relatively weak one, and that Eastwood's most acclaimed competitor so far is the Israeli animated documentary Waltz With Bashir. We'll see. Only the rash try to read the minds of the jurors, and every year's awards list brings surprises and disappointments...