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...Lily, Toshiaki's world is a soul-less wasteland in which hero worship is the only way out. The icon in Blue Spring comes in the form of Kujo (Matsuda Ryuhei), the cool, aloof, recluse of the school. If you were reborn as a camera lens, you'd want to be pointed at Matsuda: he's rapture, he's angelic, he's to-die-for. And Aoki (Arai Hirofumi) does. Aoki's role in the relationship goes from subservient to rebellious. Kujo spurns Aoki and the latter, stripped of his sense of worth, makes the ultimate sacrifice. In the final...
...surface, laughing and occasionally pushing one another, as in a playground. Outside my window, cows were padding placidly past the five-star rooms, while wild dogs barked in the early light and a man hung lines of washing (including the shirt I'd just given in?) above a muddy wasteland. And though I couldn't know it yet, not far away, the first stirrings were beginning to be felt of the terrible bloodshed that erupted a few days later, consolidating India's sad status as one of the world's centers of religious hatred...
...What can't be denied, however, is that in China's vast and troubled rust belt, workers are cautiously but increasingly taking collective action. In the urban wasteland of Zhengzhou in Henan province in central China, more than a thousand kilometers from last week's protests, workers have braved arrests and beatings to protest the closure of their factories. More workers are traveling the country, making contacts, liaising. "There's a level of organizing between factories that we haven't seen before," says Li Qiang of the New York City-based China Labor Watch, himself a former Sichuan construction worker...
Jose Guzman did the right thing. On a chilly night in the rock-and-sand wasteland of Canon de la Marrana on the Mexican border, he gave up an easy run into the U.S.--the border patrol wasn't in sight--to stay with a woman who had twisted her ankle as she took off north toward California. What really angers Guzman, as he waits for a Mexican rescue patrol to shuttle him to the nearest town, is having to make this illegal crossing in the first place. After working in a Los Angeles lumberyard for five years...
...ploy to appeal to human sentiment.” Other comments bothered me because of their flagrant inaccuracy. I joined the demonstrators in trying to dispel some of these myths. No—nobody here supports suicide bombings. No—Palestinian territory was not a barren desert wasteland before Israel conquered it in 1967. No—the Palestinian cause is not about destroying Israel; it’s about human rights, self-determination and an end to an illegal occupation...