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...Islamic law in northwest Pakistan. The ruling will cover the Malakand region, which includes the Swat Valley, a onetime tourist spot and now home base for Taliban forces. While militants have agreed to a 10-day cease-fire, critics of the deal labeled the pact a dangerous concession to violent religious extremists...
...students to monks. "We didn't celebrate anything this year, because we have nothing to celebrate," he says grimly. "We want to respect and commemorate the people who were killed last year," when demonstrations against Chinese rule in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, which neighbors Qinghai, turned violent. Beijing says 19 were killed, mostly innocent Chinese shopkeepers. Tibet's government in exile, led by its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, put the number at more than 200, mostly Tibetans. This businessman, like many of his compatriots, passionately insists that the real number is in the thousands...
Upon his return from a brief stint as a correspondent in Iraq (recounted in his previous book, War Reporting for Cowards), British journalist Chris Ayres takes up a job as a Hollywood correspondent for the London Times. There, he witnesses a less violent, but equally disturbing, scene - the rapacious, debt-funded and seemingly insatiable spending habits of upwardly mobile West Coast Americans. Assigned to cover this world, he is compelled to emulate it, purchasing gargantuan televisions, unnecessary beauty treatments, pricey meals, and shady real estate. With dry British wit, he skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic...
...were condoning promiscuity. Right. It became a cause celebre. I remember the New York Times magazine ran an article called "Who's Afraid of Erica Jong?" That was typical. Over the years it settled in and became a classic, but initially the feelings that people had were extremely violent. And living through that was an interesting experience...
...unfolds between the pair, but it becomes clear that Lolita is, like the rest of Lithuania, damaged goods—corrupted as much by the sinister “Them” as by her own submissive will. In encountering Lolita, Vargalas’ fragile paranoia is thrown into violent imbalance, and he too falls subject to the same designs “They” have exacted on Lithuania—a torture ritual of castration, evisceration, and sterilization. The most lasting surreality Vargalas experiences is a frozen city through which he alone moves, caught in a stillness that...