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...other soldiers say a similar shooting on Jan. 24 was handled differently. In that incident, an Iraqi civilian who stopped his van in front of the embassy after driving the wrong way up the road and, despite warnings, got out of the vehicle and was killed. "We don't know what happened to the wife of that man who was in the car," Ben says. Another member of his unit adds: "She certainly wasn't brought to Australia...
...some, it’s seen to be diminishing to the ways in which they want to engage with art more generally.”“Many of the shifts that are occurring are spatial, and in that sense they concern geography,” says Gary van Wyk, one of the conference’s featured speakers and a co-curator of Axis, a contemporary African art museum in Chelsea, New York. “Similarly, in attempting to grapple with them we are involved in processes that are analogous to cartography.”Van...
...Van Diemen's Land, (Black Inc., 388 pages) historian James Boyce argues compellingly that such a story wasn't true for all settlers. His focus is "the ordinary people" of early Tasmania, which as Van Diemen's Land received nearly half of all convicts shipped to Australia. Settled in 1803, it was soon ignored by London (at war with France) and Sydney (busy keeping its own population fed and under control), and, short on food supplies, set about fending for itself. Which it did, as Boyce shows, very well. For where Sydney's thick coastal scrub thwarted hunters, Van Diemen...
...While in Britain the poor starved, the colonists of Van Diemen's Land enjoyed plenty - kangaroo, oysters, wombat, echidna "stuffed with sage and onion." There was no money for prisons, so many convicts "simply wandered off to live a life of quiet freedom in the well-watered, game-rich bush". With absorbing detail and first-hand accounts, Boyce shows that while life in this new world was hard, it was, for many, better than what they'd left behind. One convict wrote of being "unaccountably indifferent" to the notion of returning home. Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum...
...SPOILER ALERT / IDIOCY ADVISORY: You're a terrorist who's just pulled off an assassination plot that killed dozens of high-ranking U.S. officials and a few hundred innocent bystanders. Now you're tearing through town in your getaway van with precious cargo in the back and a Secret Service agent on your tail. Would you hit the car breaks and risk being caught just to avoid running into a little girl on the highway...