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...alleged role in several high-profile murders; in Sicily. On the run for nine years, Spera had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the car-bomb murders of two prominent anti-Mafia judges in 1992; he was also implicated in several other murders. His arrest might have struck film-lovers as familiar: Spera was apprehended in a sting operation in the countryside near Corleone, the Italian setting of several scenes in The Godfather films...
...full horror AIDS has visited on Africa, listen to the woman we have dubbed Laetitia Hambahlane in Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure of the silence...
Still, Johanna was struck by how many people in Africa with so little helped those with even less, and how far a few dollars can go. "You could keep an AIDS orphan in school for a year with a donation of $50, and that makes the difference between having a future and having none...
...Unlike dream comics, which have always struck me as little more than curiosities, full of symbols meaningful only to the dreamer, the "Frank" stories have a meditative, hallucinatory feel. (The book is dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th-century guru/mystic.) They tap into a universal unconsciousness of archetypes. But ultimately "Frank" tells one story, everyone's story, the same story as life: "How Laughably Absurd...
...dead. Another 33,000 were injured, according to Gujarat officials. Villages near the quake's epicenter, a dry, barren region high above the Arabian Sea, were pulverized and all the more prostrate for their remoteness: help didn't get through until 24 hours after the quake struck. Ahmedabad, Gujarat's largest city with a population of 3.6 million people, and Bhuj, a walled city of 150,000 near Ground Zero, were hit hardest. In Bhuj, over 90% of the buildings were sledge-hammered by the quake, including the town's main hospital. Officials estimate 6,000 Bhuj residents were entombed...