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They are also being press-ganged into something else: national service. Last year, the regime ordered civil servants to undergo a month of military training. Teaching a restive, resentful population how to fight seems a tactical blunder, but trainees are only given sticks, not rifles, and I hear that those...
For the past year many in Iraq's Shi'ite majority have chafed under the U.S. occupation--at the lack of jobs and the frustrating pace of the promised transition to Iraqi rule, a transition that promised to bring them to power. That simmering discontent last week turned into a...
In 1992 Jones published a collection of stories called Lost in the City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and he started thinking about doing a novel. He was haunted by something he had learned in college: Before the Civil War, some free blacks in the South owned slaves. He turned...
“Then it seemed like a disaster,” Carlson says. “It probably was a blessing…I would have been way too affected, I would have been haunted by covering this kind of thing…[I had] covered a lot of...
Trouble In Haiti The unrest and violence in Haiti [LATIN AMERICA, March 15] seem part of a continuum that has haunted the country for 70 years. Among its most chaotic leaders was Dr. Fran?ois Duvalier, who ruled from 1957 until his death in 1971. We described "Papa Doc's" dictatorship...