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Peissel first heard about the gold-digging marmots in 1983, while traveling on the Indian side of the border. Local Minaro tribesmen told him that their ancestors extracted gold from sand that stuck to the rodents' fur and was deposited on the surface. Trouble was, the marmots were located on the Pakistani side of the cease-fire line in an area that is regularly strafed with mortar and gunfire. It took Peissel 14 years to get permission to visit the region under Pakistani military escort. But he is convinced it was worth the wait. "The expedition's findings at long...
...field. Little white sprites appeared, dancing to the irresistible beat and weaving their way through the tribes. Out of the delirious chaos came a formation, and presto, the tribes became the Olympic rings, and then the children became a huge white dove. All of it--the sprites, the tribesmen, the huge drums, Atlanta--all of it suddenly made perfect sense. Until Friday night the 1996 Summer Games merely belonged to this town. When the 4-hr. opening ceremony ended Saturday morning, millions of skeptics had become believers that the Olympics also belonged in Atlanta...
...Rwandan independence in 1959. Since then Hutu of Rwandan ancestry have outnumbered both Tutsi immigrants and indigenous tribes. This imbalance, along with a government decree stripping Rwandan immigrants and their descendants of Zairian citizenship, spawned tension that flared into fighting in 1993. That conflict pitted Hutu against indigenous Hunde tribesmen and was marked by gruesome rituals, with Hunde sometimes eating the hearts of their victims to gain strength and Hutu returning the favor...
...with which it blurs the line between tragedy and farce. Consider Justin Cartwright's Masai Dreaming (Random House; 287 pages; $23), a novel about the making of a Hollywood adventure movie with a Holocaust hook. The satirical possibilities are unnerving. Spectacular East African scenery, colorful colonials and free-range tribesmen, with the Final Solution worked in. How about Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts...
...While Dr. Okkenborgen of the Swedish Film and Massage Institute has argued in his seminal work, Love Them Movies!, that the !Pelikula tribesmen are the ideal moviegoing public because they 'like all of the same movies I do, (Okkenborgen 786) it seems that he opens himself up to the serious critique that he is an idiot. There are other reason for the tribesmen's importance...