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...result of his burns, Ali is suffering from septicemia, which is spreading toxic bacteria through his body. His condition should be treated in a sterilized location, but Ali lies on a bed near an open window, a dirty towel suspended over his chest. His nurse says the boy is quiet when he's alone and never cries out in pain. "He just wants to go outside Iraq to get treatment," she says. "And he just wants to see his sisters." In the calmest of times, it would be difficult to treat a boy in Ali's condition in Iraq...
...remainder rack beckons for Timoleon Vieta, he might return to the Tunbridge Wells, England, bookshop he worked in until last July; should the book turn him into the Next Big Thing, he'd sink the proceeds in a little château in France and no doubt a better bed from which to contemplate his desk. "I haven't had a good idea for months," he says. "It's very liberating." Despite finding its way onto Granta's list, Timoleon Vieta Come Home has neither the contemporary crackle of Smith and Litt, nor the intellectual and verbal grandeur of Amis...
...lying in bed one night reading and realized that we need to make a statement about your mom. And also, it would be funny,” says Kassim, who designed the website. The website—www.yourmomclothing.com—was launched on April 7 and already boasts hundreds of hits. The site features heavily Photoshopped “models” sporting the sleek designs of the “your mom.” t-shirts. Kassim is quick to note, however, that the t-shirts are not meant to be insulting: “We don?...
...white pickup rolled up, and the crowd got silent. A body wrapped in a yellow-and-orange blanket was lifted out of the bed. A nurse tried to dump out the puddles that had collected on the plastic mattress of a gurney and the body was lifted onto it. "He was 70 years old," said one of the crowd. "A martyr...
...Augustinian motif of sinning one's way to God shows up even in the early life of Dorothy Day, saintly founder of the Catholic Worker movement. The wild young Day studied Emma Goldman's anarchism. She interviewed Leon Trotsky. She had an abortion. She climbed into bed with the dead-drunk Eugene O'Neill to keep him warm until he fell asleep. Now Rome is seriously considering her for canonization...