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...There's more to life than packaged triangular sandwiches and council taxes." Shah has exchanged these dreary hazards for more substantial risks. Last July, while filming a travel documentary in Pakistan shortly after finishing the book, he was arrested and held incommunicado for 16 days in military prisons. His sister, British journalist Saira Shah, flew to Pakistan and managed to free him. "I have a U.K. passport and a Muslim-sounding name," says the author, whose grandfather was Afghan, "and it was right after the London bombings, so they must have found me suspicious. It was horrible. They were torturing...
...started taking fire from the direction of a second house, prompting them to break down the door of that house and throw in a grenade, blowing up a propane tank in the kitchen. The Marines then began firing, killing eight residents--including the owner, his wife, the owner's sister, a 2-year-old son and three young daughters...
...Georgina Cox know exactly where their children are. Well, their bodies, at least. Piers, 14, is holed up in his bedroom--eyes fixed on his computer screen--where he has been logged onto a MySpace chat room and AOL Instant Messenger (IM) for the past three hours. His twin sister Bronte is planted in the living room, having commandeered her dad's iMac--as usual. She, too, is busily IMing, while chatting on her cell phone and chipping away at homework...
...limits on reporting offenses make prosecution difficult. The Solomon Islands' Law Reform Commission, designed to review and strengthen weak laws, has been inactive for months while the government advertises for staff. Why has so little been done? "I think people are scared," says one of the report's authors, Sister Doreen Awaiasi, who runs a refuge for abused women and children outside Honiara. "We gave them our report, but it's up to the government to accept it. We lobbied them. We wanted to protect the girls." More disturbing, she adds, is that "politicians are involved in some of those...
...work built on ambiguity; everyone lies, and no character is entirely free of suspicion or guilt. It is only by eliminating that ambiguity—in seeking the truth of their mother’s actions and admitting the truth of their abuse—that Frederic and his sister Gerda are able to achieve peace. That conclusion “Pelican” ends on a hopeful note, despite the dark journey it took to get there.—Staff writer Mary A. Brazelton can be reached at mbrazelt@fas.harvard.edu...