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Gilliam is no stranger to conflict. His 1985 movie, Brazil, looked set to gather dust on the shelves until he took out an ad in the trade paper Variety publicly asking the studio boss, "When are you going to release my movie?" He needles the moguls, yet he needs them--and he hates that. "Hollywood," he says, "is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no." Yet he acknowledges his wayward streak: "I'm so perverse that I go the opposite direction of whatever's going...
...That alarms Awae, the nickname of a Muslim who lives in a multifaith community in the provincial capital Pattani. Last month three Muslims there were shot dead during evening prayers, possibly by security forces, the neighbors believe. A once peaceful community is now on edge. "If we see a stranger, we're careful about what we say," says Awae. "We live in fear...
...seeing building and skyscrapers, but over there, there were just small houses. I had already learned English and spoke it more than Spanish. I was already Americanized and I was used to being in my home and nowhere else. To me it seemed as if I was a stranger to the Spanish culture...
...explosions were powerful enough to register miles away. Diving instructor Craig Anderson was at a Bedouin village in the mountains four miles outside of town when he felt a strong jolt. "It gave me goosebumps," he said. Returning to Sharm El Sheikh, his day became even stranger when he was waved over by security officials. They asked if he would like his picture taken with Hosni Mubarak, who had come to town that morning to inspect the damage. "It was bizarre," Anderson said, showing off a mobile phone photo of himself with the Egyptian President. "Like a comedy, but terrible...
Having gone to high school in Manhattan I am no stranger to the daily commute. This only increased my dread of what I knew would become a stressful daily routine in order to get to midtown Manhattan from my home in Brooklyn. I would have to pay $2 for the pleasure of waiting in a hot, sticky and smelly station. When a train finally came, the only car with seats would be the one where the air conditioning was broken. If I chose air conditioning over a seat, I knew I could expect a ride crammed in with fellow commuters...