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...with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell this story was step by step, even if that meant contradictions," he says during an interview in the office of the grand Left Bank apartment he shares with his wife, the actress...
...doorway of what would charitably be described as a hovel stood an adorable five year-old girl. With giant black eyes she looked out shyly from behind a half open door to see what the soldiers were doing outside. A photographer noticed her and walked over to get a close up, but the girl darted indoors. He asked through an interpreter if the girl would come out for a picture, which she eventually did. He offered to show her the picture, but she shook her head. "What do you want?" the photographer asked through the interpreter. The girl immediately brought...
...time factor involved; globalization may reduce poverty in the long run, but the long run might be too long to bear. Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel. In a recent paper Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University (whose zeal for free trade makes mine look Episcopal) puts it this way: "There is legitimate impatience at the speed with which globalization will deliver social agendas. We want to go faster...
...ditch that bears all the plastic wrappers, oil, excrement and soap from the city and daily carries off camp neighbors who starvation and exposure do not take away. Then imagine your reaction as two well-dressed men, one a foreigner, pull up in a taxi, stride over to your hovel and start asking questions. Your name, how you came to be here, what it is like watching friends and family dies and whether, really, you have any hope at all. You'd think: "Foreigner." You'd think: "Money." You'd think: "Salvation...
...happen within the context of Pamela and Dulle Griet's flight through Berlin, punctuated by the comic appearances of Herman and Gunter. The sets bounce wildly between a small theater, the columns of a museum, the streets of riot-torn Berlin, a fancy French hotel and a suburban Berlin hovel; the tone of the play changes just as wildly, such as when Dulle Griet gives a heart-felt monologue about what she imagines her "happy life" will be like, punctuated by Pamela's chirpy "Well, you're certainly the strangest girl I've ever met!" While these sudden shifts...