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...tell you in exactly which country the scene occurred because I don't have the book any more. In fact, I've had to buy several of his books more than once. I read them then give them away, wanting to share them with people close to me. But then I miss them, miss being able to open a copy of, say, Another Day of Life-an account, which I happen to have with me, of the last days of Portuguese rule in Angola-and reading a line like the following, "To this day I don't know...
...Qixia men usually bought disposable SIM cards to prevent their numbers from being traced. Often, they would be in mid-sentence when a card ran out, and I would sometimes wait months before they saved up the money-and courage-to tell me more. Two years ago, I got a call while at a cocktail party. Shanghai ladies sipped champagne near me, while men discussed the city's frenzied property market. This time, the news from Qixia was good: Sun had been released from jail early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said. "I am out of jail now." I told...
...farmers who showed up at TIME's Beijing bureau back in 2001 was that they were wearing new shirts. With callused hands and dirt under their fingernails, these men were trying to blend in with the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...
...collected tips on where to buy the best pesto in Shanghai. But every few months, the Qixia men would call with an update, reminding me of some of the grim realities beyond China's caf?s and marble-lined lobbies. Two more village chiefs have been beaten up, they would tell me, one so badly that his arm dangles like a piece of string...
...Brooke Shields played a child prostitute in Pretty Baby, and in 1997, around a remake of Lolita. "The controversy comes from a societal terror that we have," Hounddog's writer-director Deborah Kampmeier said after the premiere. "A lot of people think we're gonna die if we tell this secret." The secret to which Kampmeier refers is that of sexual abuse of children. At the screening, representatives of the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) took the stage and delivered the statistic that in the time it took the audience to watch the film, eight children under...