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...postmodern French self-reference, try Grégoire Bouillier's portrait of a man trying to forget a lost love; it actually mentions the California writer whose job it is to finish the story. "Neither the Pope nor Percival Everett, no, no one will die in your place," a character muses. Then Everett one-ups Bouillier by turning the hero's metaphorical search for a place in the world into a real quest for comfortable footwear...
...become interested in soccer? -Brian Stewart, Everett, Wash. It was about four years ago, the first year the Home Depot Center [the stadium where the LA Galaxy soccer team plays] was opened. I needed a local sports team to route for in LA, so I started going to soccer games and I got hooked...
...Kate Lefko-Everett is a Cape Town-based researcher for the South African Migration Project points out another reason that local xenophobia is so galling to other Africans. "During apartheid, there were so many South African leaders who lived in exile, political refugees who were treated as heroes in foreign countries," she explains. "Those countries are asking: 'And now you treat us like this...
...Motherwell police station, Capt. Andre Beetge says the protection of Somalis is a priority. But he also reflects what Lefko-Everett says is widespread official ambivalence about refugees. "Immigrants should expect a little difficulty from locals," says Capt. Beetge. "And maybe they should weigh up what they are experiencing in their own country with what they are experiencing here. If it really is that bad here, why don't they go back...
...nation united in its diversity may remain more an aspiration than a reality. In today's South Africa, whites, coloreds and blacks still segregate themselves into single-race neighborhoods - not by law, but consent and economic circumstance. "It's the continuation of the apartheid mindset," says Lefko-Everett. And apartheid's saddest legacy turns out to be this: it didn't just make racists out of whites...