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...home now," says Fadna Haroun Abdelmamout, a recent refugee from a village near Kebkabiya. In late August the janjaweed came to her village. When she and her husband and brother attempted to stop them from stealing their camels, they were shot. Only Fadna survived, but the bullet scar on her left arm is a reminder. "I will never go back to my village," she says...
...shadows. What I want is an open, transparent, functional, socially oriented economy. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RUSSIA'S UKRAINE POLICIES? I think Russia could have come up with much better decisions. Russia endorsed the incumbent regime rather than public opinion. Russia's actions have left a deep scar in the hearts of millions of Ukrainians...
...Chronicles is your book. But if you want intravenous drug use and mondo hard-core groupie sex, try some of the other rock memoirs published this month: Tommy Lee's Tommyland (Atria; 269 pages), Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home (ReganBooks; 253 pages) and Anthony Kiedis' Scar Tissue (Hyperion; 465 pages...
...rock world is a small one. Lee used to date Carmen Electra, who later married Navarro, who played in the Chili Peppers with Kiedis, whose memoir Scar Tissue, written with Larry Sloman, is more genuinely satisfying than either Lee's or Navarro's. Kiedis, we learn, grew up in Los Angeles, raised by his hard-partying, actor-slash-drug-dealer dad--and yes, was baby sat by a naked Cher. His appetite for pleasure was precocious and prodigious; he says he slept with his dad's girlfriend when he was 11 and snorted heroin...
Sure, a little of this goes a long way, but a lot of it goes even further. There's a mesmerizing, hummingbird quality to Scar Tissue that's hard to resist. It's a frank, unsparing, meticulous account of a life lived entirely on impulse, for pleasure and for kicks, and Kiedis (or possibly his co-author, Larry Sloman) has a gift for describing pleasure, especially that of playing music with your pals, something that rarely comes through on the page. The best scene in the book occurs when the Peppers first hook up with drummer Chad Smith, who walks...