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...raised him. Kwame means Saturday, the day he was born; Linus is his Christian, or colonial name. At school, in the lush hills of the Volta region - an area that had originally been colonized by the Germans, but later came under British rule - the young Kwame sang God Save the King and saluted the British flag. "That's the training for discipline," remembers Kwame, now 72. Along with discipline, the British brought some measure of modernity to Ghana - schools, hospitals - but from a young age Kwame sensed that "they would not open up development how we wanted it. They were...
...million Amount the U.S. would save each year if dollar bills were replaced by coins, like the new, golden George Washington ones released...
...give up poppy farming or sway other warlords toward the political path. But worst of all, his 1 million tribespeople will now be convinced of U.S. perfidy, duplicity and treachery and therefore be converted into implacable enemies of the U.S. It's unlikely that Noorzai's arrest will save the life of even one drug addict on U.S. streets, though it will almost certainly cost the lives of many U.S. soldiers overseas...
Eighteen months on, one of the men who jumped into the river to help the Shi'ites says al-Obeidi "wasted his life for those animals." Hamza Muslawi refuses to talk about how many he himself saved, saying it fills him with shame. "If I see a Shi'ite child about to drown in the Tigris now," says the carpenter, "I will not reach my hand out to save him." In Khadamiya, too, the narrative about Aug. 31 has changed. Karrar Hussein, 28, was crossing the bridge when the stampede began. Ask him about al-Obeidi, and his cheerful demeanor...
...also recently branched out into directing with a film called “The Killers.” “It’s a thriller about a group of college students put in a position of having to decide whether they would kill another person to save themselves,” Moore explains. Moore says he relished the chance to take control as a director after spending so many years as a producer. “Producing is about providing all the necessary resources for directors and actors to go make a movie. You’re only...