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...Faleiro on stigmas and labels: Of a Bombay sex worker, Faleiro writes, "If she talks to me she may call herself a 'sex worker' and 'social worker,' terms she has been taught by the NGO where she works part time. Otherwise, she refers to herself as 'randi' - a Hindi word so disparaging it has no English equivalent. Neither whore nor hooker, prostitute nor tart ... The majority of sex workers, like stray dogs, either accept their maltreatment without objection, or fail to realize...
...fiction writer.” What do you define as hyper-fiction? JC: A German critic was the first one to use that term in an article he wrote about one of my books. I asked what he meant and he cryptically said, “Look up the word in the dictionary.” Lo and behold, one of the definitions of “hyper” was something like “reality that takes place beyond three dimensions.” I thought that was an interesting and appropriate way of looking...
...member of a monastic order, or to be consecrated by a bishop. Father Dario had been a Catholic priest living in Florida and making $200 an hour working as a psychologist when God told him to give up his worldly possessions and take on the contemplative life. But the Word of the Lord wasn't all it took to turn Father Dario into a hermit: Only ten years after moving to Lebanon and becoming a Maronite monk did he receive his bishop's blessing to take the next step. He moved out of the hectic life at the main monastery...
...chest. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has pledged that his country would "join hands" with other nations in solving the crisis. But the ruling Communist Party held its Third Plenum in Beijing over the weekend. The meeting is usually an occasion for major policy decisions, but there was no word of what the top cadres' attitude to their country's role in the ongoing crisis might...
...dominated a bank of computer screens, and the walls were covered with cartoons, volunteer signatures and lists of "star phonebankers." Young volunteers bustled in and out with stacks of clipboards and canvassing materials to hand to the volunteers who were showing up by the carful in the parking lot. Word had gotten out that a new load of yard signs had arrived, so they were handing those out to Obama supporters who had shown up asking for them...