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...warriors grown accustomed to regional jets on commuter hops flinch at the idea of a turboprop. Perhaps it's that sensation of being crammed into a flying matchbox while a man inside your head uses a jackhammer to tunnel his way out. (Read President Obama's statement on the tragic crash...
...after thanksgiving, my TiVo died. Because it doubles as my cable box, this meant that for the week it took to get a replacement, my TV was dead as well. This would be a tragic circumstance for most Americans. But for a TV critic, it was a blow to my livelihood. I was like a cotton farmer after a weevil infestation. I was cut off from the main pipeline of American media life...
There's a tragic edge to these men. The great days of the biker gang, if there ever were any, are behind us, and deep down, you sense that the Lost know it. That knowledge gives the men an air of faded grandeur that's borderline Faulknerian. In their lameness, their expired '70s-era cool, they're emblematic of an America in decline. "The whole thing was meant to feel almost like they're living on past glory," Houser says. "They think they're the last true Americans, the outlaws, the free." But like Niko - who appears periodically in Johnny...
...Vargalas endures a lone struggle for survival. This struggle is manifested in a search for vital signs of Lithuanian identity—a quest that’s fruitless until Vargalas stumbles headfirst into a live pulse: Lolita, the determinedly unchaste daughter of a brutal KGB colonel. In typical tragic fashion, a love story unfolds between the pair, but it becomes clear that Lolita is, like the rest of Lithuania, damaged goods—corrupted as much by the sinister “Them” as by her own submissive will. In encountering Lolita, Vargalas’ fragile paranoia...
...have committed many massacres of Tutsi civilians and have exploited the rich mineral resources of the region. The FDLR subjugates people either by rape (often performed in groups - and on people of either gender) or with the AK-47, a weapon so ubiquitous that it has picked up a tragic moniker: the Congolese credit card. Mary, the scarred woman in the center of the photo collage on the next two pages, told me that FDLR men raped her, set her house on fire and left her to die. She survived. Her 2-year-old daughter...