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...backdrop of the media circus outside the Port-au-Prince courthouse, where these Americans have been ushered to and fro for the past week, there are tents. These tents belong to women like 56-year-old Marie-Claude Jean, who lives on the cement driveway of the courthouse in hopes of getting some aid. She has observed the grandiose statements of lawyers and judges every day and says that, from what she can tell, the Americans should be freed based on good intentions. "When you take a child out of Haiti, they have more opportunities," says Jean...
...opposition. Indeed, Hassan Khomeini aroused the ire of pro-government members of parliament after complaining that the state media, the IRIB, had broadcast speeches with selective editing to create a misleading impression of his grandfather's beliefs. The MPs, in a joint statement, retorted, "Imam Khomeini does not belong to a specific 'house...
Despite Munro’s clear attempts to move outside her comfort zone—even making one story’s narrator a man—the stories of “Too Much Happiness” still firmly belong in Munro Land. And despite subject matter that includes a fair amount of sex, drugs, and violence, her stories still read with the same quiet calm, so much so that it often takes a couple minutes for the full weight of the subject matter to sink...
...These two complementary and beautifully produced books belong to Wolf's larger, long-term project of documenting his adopted city. The slimmer volume, Outside, brings together his depictions of Hong Kong's hulking, close-packed apartment complexes, seen as megaliths and reduced to hard graphic planes. In page after page of images framed to reveal neither sky nor street, the viewer perceives not Hong Kong's iconic skyline but only dizzyingly repetitive patterns of verticals, both impressive and oppressive in their tyrannical two-dimensionality...
...other hand, we played the No. 3 team, who was as high as two,” Bajwa continued. “It’s very tight up there. No. 2, 3, and 4 have all beaten each other and we are five, so we showed we belong among these groups...