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Rian Malan is the author of My Traitor's Heart, published in 1990 by Atlantic Monthly Press. He lives in Cape Town
...Diamondbacks’ Yankee-slaying as if it were their own, nearly every Democratic victory since 9/11 has been vicarious. Bush’s recent unraveling—thanks to Reagan-era budget deficits, Iraqi WMD deficits and a deficit of White House candor in response to a traitor within its ranks—has brought the Democrats a tremendous opportunity they did nothing to earn...
...construction. "What if my wife goes to the market and is kidnapped?" he asks. Firas, 24, another translator working with the U.S., says the Iraqis who cheered him on the streets after the fall of Baghdad now "look at me as if I'm a spy or a traitor." No one but his mother knows he's working for the U.S. forces. "It's just too dangerous out there," he says...
...Purists have long since written off the most famous of European festivals, the Montreux Jazz Festival (July 4-19), but the crowds who flock there don't care. As founder Claude Nobs cheerfully acknowledges, "I'm the traitor who crossed the line first." It was in Montreux 32 years ago that the Casino burned down during a Frank Zappa concert, inspiring Deep Purple's rock classic Smoke on the Water. "I feel a little bad to be called a jazz festival, but it's our tattoo, we can't change it," says Nobs, who was immortalized in the Purple anthem...
...your story on the foreign-policy feud between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell over how to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq [THE RECONSTRUCTION, April 14]: What are the frothing-at-the-mouth military hawks going to say next? That Powell is an unpatriotic traitor for wanting the State Department and the U.N. to have a role in Iraq? The world view espoused by neoconservatives such as Rumsfeld--in which the Pentagon would slam the door on the U.N., Britain, the State Department and anyone else who has a problem with their messianic aspirations--will...