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...error occurred while processing this directive] Matigari posed questions Kenyans were afraid to ask, they talked about him as if he were real, the way soap-opera fans and comic-book lovers do. "The regime thought there was a guy actually going around asking 'Where can a person find truth and justice in this land?,'" says Ngugi. "So Moi sent the police to arrest him." Realizing the character was fictional, they arrested the book instead and Matigari was banned. It was 10 years before Ngugi could bring himself to write another novel. "The muse seemed to desert me," he says...
Although the 9/11 Truth Movement, as many conspiracy believers refer to their passion, has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is flourishing on the Internet. One of the most popular conspiracy videos online is Loose Change, a 90-min. blizzard of statistics, photographs, documents, eyewitness accounts and expert testimony set to a trippy hip-hop backbeat. It's designed to pick apart, point by point, the conventional narrative of what happened on Sept...
...Trade Center, which was witnessed by millions of bystanders and television viewers and documented by hundreds of Zapruders. You would think there was enough footage and enough forensics to get us past the grassy knoll and the magic bullet, to create a consensus reality, a single version of the truth, a single world we can all live in together...
...world having concluded that Tom Cruise is Public Weirdo #1. I don't say that these formerly adored guys can't make a comeback; America's memory loss, both short- and long-term, and especially when it come to celebrity misbehavior, has reached truly epidemic proportions. But the truth is that these actors have long since ceased to be romantic icons. They're essentially action stars, and the truth is that, the odd comedy aside, all the summer's large successes have once again been action movies...
...days later, a gleaming new counter arrived outside the bakery. The baker was remodeling, and as far as he knew, there had been no massive delivery of grain to Lebanese Shi`ites. But as is so often the case in such matters, the truth is almost less relevant than what becomes the prevailing belief. That people so readily accepted that their government would forsake their daily loaf for a distant Islamic cause just speaks to the overwhelming bitterness these days in Tehran. Most people are convinced the government is spending outrageous sums on the Lebanese, and ever since the Iranian...