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...beautiful, complex portraits we have of the idealism and subsequent disillusionment of that decade. Cortázar—a literary heavyweight in Latin America, associated with the prolific Boom period of the 60s and 70s—wrote “Hopscotch” in 1963, after his move to France to escape dictator Juan Domingo Perón, and its Left Bank influences are clear. In stunningly tactile prose, the novel follows pseudo-autobiographical protagonist Horacio Oliveira, also an Argentinean expatriate, through his nights of jazz, cigarette smoke, and intellectual conversation in Paris with a group of friends...
...Muna and Fadi's transition to life in America is made easier in a practical sense by having family to move in with. Her sister Raghda (Hiam Abbass, who starred in The Visitor and makes wrinkles look elegant) is married to a doctor, Nabeel Halaby (Yussef Abu Warda), and one of their three daughters vacates a bedroom for them. The house is big, the neighborhood good and Fadi enrolls in the nearby public school. The other students are awful to him, but at least he has his hip, rebellious cousin Salma (Alia Shawkat, Maeby from Arrested Development) to hang...
...move to placate China, pledged last month not to visit Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The shrine honors millions of Japan's war dead, including many considered war criminals; visits by high-ranking officials often spark outrage among Japan's neighbors...
...choice Democratic politicians, is still more than a decade away from reaching the church's automatic retirement age of 75. Martino's abrupt resignation, along with the fact that he was not reassigned to another position within the church, has some church insiders suggesting that the highly unusual move was far from voluntary - and quite possibly the work of a Vatican that has been decidedly less openly critical of the Obama Administration. (See pictures of Obama with the Pope in July...
...believed to have made the boat journey to the Italian island of Lampedusa, just 70 miles (113 km) from Tunisia. Earlier this year, Italy signed a controversial agreement with Libya allowing Italian authorities to automatically send would-be immigrants back to Libya without screening them for asylum claims - a move that arguably breaches the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention...