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...special" has a very special meaning at this particular school. The children are, in fact, clones, genetically engineered for a sinister purpose - to serve as organ donors. Sounds like the perfect setup for a kids-on-the-run sci-fi thriller. But Ishiguro's characters don't do rebellion. This writer is fascinated by people simply making the best of their fates. So there are no chases through woods, no baying bloodhounds. Instead, the book takes on a cool, anthropological tone, inviting the reader to study these unusual creatures as if they were specimens in a jar - which makes...
...editor in chief, insists there is no relation. Unlike H Bomb, a nonprofit organization funded by Harvard grants, Boink charges undergraduates $8 per issue and is unrecognized by its school. While Cieplack-von Baldegg wrote in an e-mail that H Bomb is “a rebellion against both New England Puritanism and the superficial, misogynist, and often pornographic depiction of sex in pop culture,” BU’s version doesn’t claim to be as multi-dimensional...
Banjoko also attributed hip-hop’s rise to cutbacks in the funding for art programs in the “education establishment,” which inspired African-American youth to create new forms of art as self-expression and rebellion...
...fluid narrative tells the story of Mau Mau—a term whose origins are unclear even today—a rebellion incited after the British settled in the traditional homeland of the Kikuyu, which pushed 1.5 million people onto reservations governed by puppet “chiefs.” Kikuyu resentment of British settlers escalated into Mau Mau, a rebellion whose adherents hacked to death about 2,000 European settlers and Kikuyu “loyalists.” While these deaths have been well-documented, Elkins’ work focuses, by contrast, on the many Kikuyu...
That said, al-Jaafari is a man with a past. He leads the Islamic Dawa Party, a deeply religious Shi'ite group that spearheaded a rebellion against Saddam Hussein's regime in the late 1970s. Dawa received backing from the Shi'ite regime in Iran. During the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, Saddam made membership in the party punishable by death and brutally suppressed the movement. Like much of the Dawa leadership, al-Jaafari fled to Iran and then to Britain. The group's past activities are murky. Al-Jaafari was a member of Dawa's political wing when...