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...Prague '68, when the Soviet army once again reminded those who lived behind the Iron Curtain who was in charge. In the West, the visible costs of division were essentially trivial - a sort of regret that the jumbled spires and steeples of Prague and Krakow would remain the stuff of prints and woodcuts rather than things one saw for oneself - but in the East they were not. Two generations grew up in a climate where their life chances were stunted, where feelings had to be kept private, language stripped of the sort of inflection that would cause trouble. Some gave...
...balance between safety and punctuality? Reducing cabin baggage to large briefcases, body searching infant children or confiscating toothpaste does not improve security one iota. We welcome the recent moves to restore U.K. airport security to the sensible and effective standards we campaigned for. You say you'd like to "stuff it" to British Airways. Why the vitriol? Anyone charging airfares that are five times higher than Ryanair deserves a bit of abuse from time to time. What do you plan on doing with yourself after Ryanair? Making the world a better place ... by taking a vow of silence...
...creepy. When you're really sure that you're getting old, you just shoot yourself. No, I'm kidding. It's O.K. I have a lot of things wrong with me, and so there are a lot of medical problems and stuff. That makes it harder, but you don't know that when you're playing. As soon as you start playing, all that goes away...
...gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it's time to make a stew." Her stepfather sells her for 800 rupees to a woman who spirits her off to a brothel in Calcutta. If the book sounds grim, it is. It's also the stuff awards committees love; Sold was just nominated for a Young People's National Book Award...
...Iraqis both during and after Saddam Hussein's rule. Roth, 34, has taken heat for the brutality in Hostel, the DVD of which knocked the family-friendly film The Chronicles of Narnia off the top-selling spot at Wal-Mart last spring. "People say, 'How can you put this stuff out there in the world?' Well, it's already out there," says Roth. He appeared on Fox News and proclaimed that it was because of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld that Americans are watching horror films: "You're so scared, you want to scream...