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...resolve. They self-medicate with alcohol and analgesics, their compulsion not dissimilar to the reason for Sylvie’s own addiction. Like the ill-fated Erysicthon, they devour themselves, and yet for all their indulgence in masochistic punishment, they cannot wrench free from the consequences of their war-torn pasts. The author of three previous novels centered on the immigrant experience, Lee is still preoccupied with tropes of alienation, estrangement, and a loss of identity. “The Surrendered” simply concerns emigrants of time rather than location...
...hard to believe that it has been just over a year since President Obama was sworn into office. The feeling of the nation then was hopeful. American voters had just torn down the nation’s final color barrier, and the youthful, eloquent, and charismatic president-elect offered a welcome promise of change. “All this we can do. All this, we will do” the President declared on that bitter-cold January day, in reference to a lengthy list of dire issues facing the nation. Obama vowed to tackle the nation’s toughest...
...hang out for the show’s intermission show for three years now, said that Tuesday’s performance left him a bit more exposed than those in the past. Although the lights were supposed to shut off a second after his boxers were torn off, they stayed on a couple seconds too long, enough time for the audience to take everything...
...describe Derrick, your first client who was executed, as "a bad guy." And yet you were clearly torn up by his death. What's it like to develop a personal connection with unsavory characters? Most of the cases I work on are tragic, but at a very deep level they make sense to me. I understand how [the crime] happened. Most of my clients dropped out of school. They've got extensive juvenile records. They came from backgrounds of deprivation. I'm not saying that excuses their conduct. I'm simply saying that there were any number of points...
...charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But democracy's champions - particularly the U.S. government, the busiest and most heavyweight supporter of the coming vote in Sudan - may be feeling a little more at ease this week after the main rebel group in the war-torn province of Darfur agreed a cease-fire with the government...