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...believable as Agu’s original voice. The spontaneous and dynamic narration causes an early attachment to Agu. When he does begin to kill alongside the rebel fighters, the result is a surprising complicity: The reader feels his guilt. The narrative commences in the midst of an extremely violent and inexplicable war, during which his mother and sister flee and his father is killed. Agu is then abducted by a second group, rebel fighters who force him to become one of them: a soldier. From this moment on, Agu’s life is a journey through all sorts...
...have been generally unaffected by the recent rioting in the suburbs of Paris and cities across the country and have found themselves reassuring worried relatives back home. The reason, many said, was that they live and study in central Paris, which was left largely untouched by three weeks of violent confrontations between rioters and police. “I haven’t seen major panic in the Parisian streets, maybe because I live rather far away from where the disturbances that are taking place.” said Glenda Aldana ’07, who is spending the fall...
...it’s still a great way to communicate with friends abroad, sisters at work, and good-looking strangers that you meet on the subway during the commute to your summer internship and look very normal but could be axe-murderers. (While he turned out not to be violent, he was unhappily married, a slight turn-off I dare...
...Walter Camp, an influential football pioneer and a Yalie, advocated widening the NCAA playing field by 40 feet. The proposal was meant to open more space, and thereby reduce the violent nature of the college game...
...Europeans, are supposed to be racist, stagnant, and repressive. We are the ones who supposedly shunt away our unwanted and care only for certain types of citizens. We are the ones that segregated the races. Most of all we, and not our enlightened European brethren, are the violent and the crude. Reality, however, even long-suppressed and denied reality, has a nasty habit of rearing its head. As we have all been told by the Associated Press and other mainstream media, the mayhem that swept through neglected and impoverished neighborhoods with large African and Arab communities has been building...