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...finding an individual voice in a new language: “my mother says I would have been married in saigon settled with two children as for that man in the picture holding the gun where would he be now as it is decisions arrived at somewhere in southern california he owns a restaurant i’ve written a poem.” —Staff writer Alison S. Cohn can be reached at acohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...gained independence from the United Kingdom. Adjaye moved to London to finish his education and has become one of Britain’s leading architects. “African Cities” shows roughly 40 photographs each of 10 capital cities Adjaye snapped in his travels to the western, southern, and eastern regions of the continent. Many African capitals seem wracked with the same problems: a previous architectural tradition hijacked by colonialism and poorly managed since independence. Adjaye has his eyes largely on colonial and Modernist architecture, but also on the more informal architectural phenomena—marketplaces, slums...
...French terror expert Roland Jacquard points out that the AQIM was formed by a hard core of leaders who now view with disdain the holdouts of their former organization, the GSPC, still operating in the southern part of Algeria. Similarly, Moroccan extremists are frequently divided into small, local groups who turned locally recruited impoverished youths into the hastily trained kamikazes that botched the recent Casablanca bombings. More sophisticated groups connected with Qaeda leaders in the Gulf may have recruited officers in the security forces and pilots in the national airline, but they have also been more closely monitored...
...himself and serving in Indonesia and Montenegro. In 2000, he took two years off to walk 9,600 km across Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India, seeking to better understand the countries now so important to the West. Then, for 11 months he served as deputy governor of a southern Iraqi province under the Coalition Provisional Authority-a stint that yielded the searingly honest The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq...
...feel like we have had an electric shock. We do not know what to do," his brother G.V. Palanivel told the NDTV news channel from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. "He has been a driving force for all of us, the guiding force...