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Jen’s fascination with identity and ethnicity translates readily into her love for travel, though she goes only “where we can take the kids.”
In a suburb outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif last week, Dostum was in campaign mode. Next month the country will hold its long-awaited loya jirga, or grand assembly, which will choose a transitional government. Dostum relaunched his old political party, the National Islamic Movement. Known simply...
You can boot Spidey off a skyscraper, and he'll still end up on top. The same applies to Marvel, the company that created him. Four years ago, it was in Chapter 11, but three hit films based on Marvel comics--1998's Blade, 2000's X-Men and this...
The village people are untouchable, and not just as outmoded icons of American popular culture. The Japanese word burakumin literally translates as “village people”—and the burakumin are outcasts in Japanese society. Discriminated against since the 15th century, the burakumin were undertakers...
Yasser Arafat is free. But whether his personal liberty translates into freedom for his people - and peace for Israel - depends on a complex and perilous diplomatic dance between the U.S., the Saudis, the Israelis and the Palestinian leadership, a dance made all the more delicate after a fire broke out...