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...fascination with borders and belonging similarly permeate A Life Elsewhere, a superb collection of short stories published last year, which Afolabi had composed during breaks from writing the novel. One tale, Monday Morning, is about a family of asylum seekers fleeing atrocities at home for a new life in London; another is about a young man escaping to the U.S. from London; a third explores the feelings of repulsion and shame a man feels on a trip "home" to Nigeria. The stories are almost unremittingly dark. When the father in Monday Morning injures himself escaping immigration officials on a building...
...party representing ethnic gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday. "I am politically neutral and I intend to stay that way," she told the legislators in the parliament's lounge. "I keep my hands off politics, and I expect the politicians to keep theirs off my music...
...romanticize farmhands and factory workers. But what of the John Henrys plowing sweatily through PowerPoint presentations? White-collar employees, who make up 60% of the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are largely absent from pop lyrics, except for novelty songs and minor works. (The Bangles' Manic Monday mainly proves that the songwriter Prince is more convincing on the subject of sex than commuting.) As far as songwriters are concerned, the Dilberts of the world can buy their MP3s, but they can't have noble souls and inner lives...
...party representing ethnic Gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday, during the debate on Serbia's new government. "I am politically neutral and I intend to stay that way" Serifovic told the legislators in the Parliament's lounge. "I keep my hands off politics, and I expect the politicians to keep theirs off my music," she said...
...violence that has claimed 41 lives since Saturday and left the city paralyzed by a general strike on Monday began when MQM supporters took to the streets to prevent opposition supporters from welcoming Iftikhar Choudhry, the chief justice sacked by Musharraf two months ago, whose legal challenge to his ouster has become a rallying point for government opponents. Iftikhar was scheduled to attend the 50th anniversary of the Sindh High Court Bar Association in the city, but a couple of days before his arrival, the MQM announced plans to hold a rally at the same time to challenge the opposition...