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...nation in the world to do so. Refugees, without committing an offence, are the sole group in Australia who can be imprisoned indefinitely by order of Parliament?and no courts may order their release. These policies, widely condemned by the international community, are the target of From Nothing to Zero?a grim compilation of letters written in captivity, plaintive testaments and fierce counterblasts of a wretched Untermensch that came to Australia in leaky boats or suffocating containers looking for a lucky break they were almost always denied. Though normally a travel publisher, Lonely Planet has lent its worldly-wise imprimatur...
...ARTS Books: The Bang Devils Books: From Nothing to Zero...
...Australia is often tardy in owning up to its darker past. One need only look at the Howard government's refusal to apologize to the "stolen generation" of Aborigines to understand that. The detention centers described in From Nothing to Zero are nothing more than convenient oubliettes allowing most Australians to consign refugees to dusty oblivion, aided by the fact that the media are not allowed to visit refugee detention centers. You would have expected protests about that?but there have hardly been any. In a vast, sunburned land where the beer is always cold and the surf forever...
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to quiz Leavitt about the EPA's post-9/11 announcements on air quality near ground zero. Last month the agency's inspector general determined that the White House added "reassuring statements" to EPA press releases despite the presence of toxic contaminants...
...independent experts to assess whether the tower could be restored for less money. Deutsche is making "a cynical attempt to leverage the lingering image of Sept. 11 into more dollars," the insurers' court filing says. The public row is even holding up Manhattan's plans to redevelop the ground zero site. Deutsche has also filed suit against New York City authorities for putting fuel tanks near its building, which it alleges contributed to the damage. Whatever the outcome of the suits, Deutsche is leaving town anyway, moving across the river to New Jersey. Turkish Pop Culture A new Turkish soda...