… When the Soldiers Come Back About ten million Americans, if we split Brigadier … give and take. In his mind will be dissolved many a false conception nurtured by nationalism, especially about … When the Soldiers Come Back …
Reporting
… And the statistics show they’ll spend ten percent of that income on petty bribes to the Afghan government. The whole of … of growing an economy in a landlocked country. He points to prospective spurs to Pakistan and Iran, where … pulley system that once dragged coal cars out of the mine died decades ago, and now the miners lower themselves in …
Fiction
… alone before. In the subway there is a store selling fine combs, brushes, hair clips made of jade and tortoise shell. … can provide a smooth journey in the fortune-seeking course. Also loving care and health. At a nearby temple, people pray … himself when he started drinking again after his mother died, though Bridget noted that the first time she saw him …
… Cong, they are there too, and the ones from the day so many died you tore up your own clothes for bandages, all there … you can’t tell them. Over twenty years since you got lost coming home, and now you’re back here in the stinking silt …
Essays
… Bolivia. Those were the days when the Cold War pitted Communist countries against their capitalist rivals. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the ambassador of armed … like a trance state. “We put pajamas on him, but the soldiers pulled them down to show where the bullets were—in a …
… as well. Billington notes that “to men accustomed to the companionship of their fellows in thickly settled Europe the … five minutes longer than they did elsewhere before they died. The general health was so good in one town that the … by grunts as the Indians became barely articulate animals. In its most enduring form, the Caucasian view of the …