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Remy Kasanda long held such hopes. He had just finished high school in the Congo when he was conscripted into a rebel army. While he fought, his family was killed. Six years ago, he fled to South Africa and found work as a security guard. Now comes the reckoning. "I was at work when my friends called me to tell me that my house was on fire," he says. "On my way into town, a mob attacked me with sticks." Arriving at hospital, "the South African doctor told me: all you foreigners must go home." Kasanda's damning verdict...
...Pullman's His Dark Materials. Lewis' series of seven books, published in the 1950s, was widely seen as a Christian allegory, presided over by the God-lion Aslan, who dies and rises again. Pullman's trilogy, written in the 1990s, described a battle between a dictatorial deity and the rebel angels determined to defeat him. As the author told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2003, "My books are about killing...
...times of natural disasters, food riots and the criminal responses of governments like Burma's. But Blindness is rarely plausible, never compelling; its characters are locked in a mindset that accepts the status quo, no matter how awful it gets. They never think of forming a community to rebel against the government guards, and only belatedly find a way to escape. Meirelles' camera style is plenty jazzy, with an agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin American director); but his characters are as flaccid as those...
...involved with a troupe practicing a-nyient, a traditional Burmese form of comedy that often pokes fun at the country's military leaders. When those leaders reasserted their authority in a 1988 putsch, Htein Lin, along with many other student activists, fled into the jungle. While living in a rebel camp, he happened to meet an older artist, who offered him drawing lessons using recycled newspaper or sticks in the sand and described the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some images of them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course, it was nothing like...
That's not happening yet. The inadequacy of Iraqi forces has come under a harsh spotlight since March, when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched an offensive in the southern city of Basra against Shi'ite militias loyal to the rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The operation, named Saulat al-Forsan (Charge of the Knights), was an opportunity for the Iraqi troops to show just how far they have come as an independent force. But barely a day into the offensive, al-Maliki had to call for backup as his troops ran into resistance from the militias. British and American...