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Maupin's mission last April 9, Good Friday, was to ride shotgun on a fuel tanker that was part of a mile-long convoy. Under the protection of part of the 724th, civilian contractors were hauling diesel fuel in 17 tanker trucks across 60 miles from the U.S. military's main logistics base at Camp Anaconda in Balad to Baghdad International Airport. Just west of Baghdad at about 10:30 a.m., the convoy came under sudden attack on the six-lane Abu Ghraib Expressway. "We're taking fire in the rear!" radioed a truck driver. Within seconds, the entire convoy...
...last Tuesday, however, Kamle wasn't protesting. Shrestha says the 22-year-old student was chatting with a crowd gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the university's Pushapati campus when a truck filled with about 15 armed policemen pulled up at the gates. A man in plain clothes carrying a shotgun walked up to Kamle. They exchanged words. Suddenly Kamle threw up his hands, looked at Shrestha and shouted: "Sir! Sir! They are taking me! This is the death of democracy in Nepal!" The man marched Kamle to the truck and he was driven away. Across Kathmandu...
...Wallace and Tim O'Brien, all of them Americans. Indeed, Murakami's fondness for U.S. pop-cultural references has moved local critics to complain that he worships the West at the expense of things Japanese. Guilty, with an explanation. As Kafka demonstrates, Murakami's Japan is a land of truck stops, rock music, Ray-Bans, Hollywood movies and workouts at the gym. But for his youngish, hip, history-oblivious fans, this is Japan. More than previous Murakami novels, Kafka embraces nearly the entire Western canon, with learned digressions on Beethoven, Schubert, Chekhov, T.S. Eliot and a pantheon of ancient Greeks...
...soldiers' good luck set many civilians dreaming of Middle East riches. They soon got their chance: last November, newly formed Meridian Services began hiring truck drivers, mechanics, storemen and computer operators for the Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Company, which transports into Iraq "everything from frozen food to vehicles and construction materials," says Meridian director Timoci Lolohea. Salaries start at $1,700 a month, and "the response from the public has been overwhelming." Nine hundred men are already in Kuwait, and Meridian staff are touring rural villages in a drive to sign up another 4,000 workers, including women...
...will talk, the sky will rain sardines or yet another show-stopping character will step forward. In a Web poll of Japanese readers, most respondents said that if Kafka were dramatized, they would want to play Oshima, the librarian's impressively literate, transsexual assistant. Others preferred Hoshino, the earthy truck driver who helps the cat-talking old man in his quest to find a magic stone that can free the boy from his curse. Like any Murakami novel, Kafka defies both description and the urge to stop reading...