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They rise before dawn, dressing and fetching water as the day's first lilac light seeps across the sky. As Dili wakes around them to a chorus of roosters, Jos? and Dilia Amaral hurry through their morning chores. Today they have somewhere special to go. Today is Aug. 30, the day of East Timor's first democratic elections, and when the Amarals arrive at the local school soon after sunrise to vote, there's already a growing queue. "It's the start of something new," says Jos?. The morning is humid and the wait will be long, but Jos?...
...know Adam's will be hard too," says Adam's uncle Saghdou. His eyes hang low in his weathered face, dragged down by time. "The desert is our enemy. It's like a devil," he says. "Everything you see moves or changes. The horizon is gliding, the sky moves. Even we must keep moving...
...ceremony was conducted under a cloudless sky marred only by a loudly circling helicopter...
...want to because boys don't write poetry," he pouts. But slowly Jack comes to savor poems, through the subtle persuasion of Miss Stretchberry, who is never heard from or described on the page. Through poetry, Jack comes to grips with the death of his beloved yellow dog, Sky: "He was such a funny dog/that dog Sky/that straggly furry smiling dog Sky." The book, deceptively simple and never preachy, is studded with work by acclaimed poets such as Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams and Walter Dean Myers...
...Labor Day 1997 it was Princess Diana crumpling her car against a Paris tunnel wall. In 1998 it was the diligence of Ken Starr and the televising of Bill Clinton's "meaning of is" grand jury testimony. Everybody worked that month. In 1999 JFK, Jr. fell out of the sky in mid-July (and carried over well into August), and in 2000 there was the unnatural election that was just too close to let alone. (That one ruined Thanksgiving...