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Every morning since Shoshana Johnson went off to war nearly two months ago, her father has woken up and turned on the TV in their home in El Paso, Texas, hunting for cartoons for his granddaughter Janelle, 2. "We go through a kind of ritual. We turn on the TV and that keeps her absolutely quiet while I get her milk," says Claude Johnson, with a sparkle in his eye. "So I got up last Sunday to turn on the TV, searching for cartoons, and I saw on Telemundo that Iraq had prisoners of war." The sparkle disappears...
...almost noon, and Bayarsakhan looks as if he has just woken up. His jaw hangs slack, and his face is marred by fresh gouges?the result, he says, of tripping onto barbed wire the previous night. It's -25?C, yet Bayarsakhan is wearing only a turtleneck sweater and wool pants, oblivious to the cold. He has nowhere to go, no job to occupy the bitter day ahead. So he stands here idly, amid a dense cluster of shacks, while haggard cows pick through garbage piles. After all his wanderings, the 30-year-old nomad has ended up here...
...with rappers Ms. Dynamite and the Streets nominated for four awards each. There's even - finally - a category called British Urban. And amazingly Robbie Williams - the hottest young Brit on the planet, with 13 Brits on his mantel - is only nominated for one this time. "The music industry has woken up," says soulful U.K. garage rapper Romeo, who is nominated on his own and as a member of the garage collective So Solid Crew. "It's been a really good year for urban acts - we've been hitting the Top 10s and making the right songs people want to hear...
...were given sodden rice and plain dhal to eat. Every few hours I would be woken up and pulled from the cell to answer questions. The same high-ranking officer who brandished his pistol would force me to sit on the floor with my legs extended so he could thrash my left kneecap with his baton. The police wanted a full accounting of the time I spent with the Channel 4 crew: the places we went, the sources we met. I had done nothing to be ashamed of, so I told them everything I knew...
...then late last week, bottles were being dropped from five floors above our kids’ rooms. Two of my campers—the same kids who had woken me up at the crack of dawn with electric guitars—came running from their rooms. I never knew how it would feel having kids run to me in the night, calling my name...