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...privately owned publication became a forum for criticism of Mugabe’s government. In January 1999, Chavunduka and Ray Choto, the chief reporter at The Standard, were arrested and brutally tortured after the newspaper published a story reporting an alleged military coup against Mugabe...
HOMOSEXUALITY Ray Blanchard at the University of Toronto has found that gay men are more likely than either lesbians or heterosexual men to have older brothers (but not older sisters). He has since confirmed this observation in 14 samples from many places. Something about occupying a womb that has held other boys occasionally results in reduced birth weight, a larger placenta and a greater probability of homosexuality. That something, Blanchard suspects, is an immune reaction in the mother, primed by the first male fetus, that grows stronger with each male pregnancy. Perhaps the immune response affects the expression...
...Ray Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is beautiful, sexy, 10 years younger--and bored out of her mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away at Ray's sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff...
That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by AIDS, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves--a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller--but Rush merges the two successfully...
...identities Ray is an obsessive interpreter: he relentlessly decodes everything he sees and hears, whether it's a surveillance tape, Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach or a chance remark by his wife. "You turn into a kind of crouched thing, a crouched listening beast," the anguished Iris tells him, "listening for what everything I say might mean, beyond the simple thing I said itself." To watch Ray come up against the limits of his ability to make his life--his lives--make sense is moving; it's difficult to think of a more convincing depiction of the intimacy that prevails...