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...several months. With the unexpected proceeds, Seierstad recently bought an apartment in a house in Oslo that was once owned by arctic explorer Roald Amundsen - so she is now plotting her next move in the place where he planned his epic journeys. The characters in The Bookseller of Kabul reflect Afghanistan's contradictions. A man of letters who hid his books from the Taliban in attics across Kabul, Khan boasts that his eight or nine thousand volumes are the world's largest collection of books on Afghanistan. Yet he's a traditionalist who presides strictly over business and family - including...
...wasn't exactly a celebration of diversity as envisioned in the government-sponsored Remaking Singapore report that followed Goh's interview. Nor was it quite the stuff of the open society that the government is seeking to foster. But it did reflect realities that visitors have been slowly uncovering: Singapore is actually becoming a hell of place to party with people of every race and sexuality, and despite images to the contrary, it does not need much more loosening up to remain high on, if not top of, the Asian league of fun cities...
...says her experiences at the shelters reflect the dearth of available care in the Boston area—a condition that she attributes in part to recent cuts in state funding for shelters like the UniLu...
...whose internal sense of gender differs from the male or female sex they were assigned at birth. “Transsexual” generally refers to people who have taken or plan to take medical steps such as surgery or hormone treatment to modify their bodies to more appropriately reflect their gender identity. “Intersex” describes people born with sex chromosomes, external genitalia or an internal reproductive system that is not considered “standard” for either the male or female...
...Iraqis to put them on trial. There was also criticism of the U.S. for parading the bodies in a sometimes macabre media ritual, and for failing to observe the Muslim tradition of burial within 24 hours. Those comments, as well as the calls for trial rather than summary execution, reflect a resentment of occupation even among many Iraqis who had loathed Saddam - the fact that it took an American invasion and occupation to get rid of him deepens their humiliation, and hasn't necessarily endeared the U.S. to them. That sense of alienation may be reinforced by incidents a raid...