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...daddy ever should a girl. When you been through shit like that, what’s one more skinny Chinaman? He ain’t so bad. He don’t beat you....He trifling. Like a pickpocket on 9/11,” she read. Despite the bleak subject matter, Tran’s direct and decidedly politically incorrect style drew peals of laughter from the audience. As a preface to his reading from his 2002 collection of prose poems “Dust and Conscience” and his recently completed manuscript “Four Letter Words...
...artists chose to focus on different aspects of life in the refugee camp, and the subject matter was charged in all three cases. Sabreen explained that she wanted to focus her pictures on women in the camp because, as she explained, a woman “faces terror and occupation…[but] she stays strong and resistant. She knows a day will come when this occupier will leave...
...readily apparent from the photographs.The gridded layout is a striking contrast to the seeming urban chaos and begs for comparisons between buildings within neighborhoods, neighborhoods within cities, cities within regions, and regions within the continent. Adjaye’s arrangement, which is surprisingly lively and skillfully avoids desiccating the subject, makes these comparisons both accessible and rewarding. His depictions sometimes seem arbitrary, though such a flaw is unavoidable in cities as large as these. Rather than detract from the experience, the arbitrary nature of the photos contributes to the exhibition’s magnetic quality. Adjaye photographs what interests...
...Augustus Richard Norton had written my high school history books, I may have developed a more favorable outlook on the subject. As it is, he did not, and now I must accept that in the field of historical knowledge, I have a rather arbitrary appreciation for the study of Hezbollah, a Lebanese political organization that is often simply described as a terrorist group. In “Hezbollah: A Short History,” Norton, a Boston University professor who formerly served as a United Nations military observer in the region, draws upon his years of study to deliver...
...errors. But Virginia Tech is a state institution, and Virginia is a state where the doctrine of sovereign immunity remains quite robust. That doctrine, a relic of English common law, essentially says the state can do no wrong because the state creates the law and thus cannot be subject to it. Many states have relaxed sovereign immunity and made it possible for victims of, say, botched operations to sue state hospitals. But Krauss of George Mason University says the Virginia Tech victims' families would probably have to seek an exception to sovereign immunity from the Supreme Court of Virginia...