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No Roads Out, No Roads Home
… in a cab in Baghdad, especially as a non-Iraqi, had become a pretty dicey proposition. I weighed that against the … Palestinian. His father, who was originally from Gaza, studied electrical engineering in the UK and then moved to … militia groups began blockading roads and manning checkpoints, in search of members of the opposing sect or rival …
Inefficient Efficiency
… the factory superintendents, have marched ahead, overcoming one difficulty after another, building patiently and … of the technical incompetence of 1920 has since been remedied. On the other hand, improvements in methods of … of plowing cotton under is true so far as it goes. It is also true of well-organized industry, and industry …
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… and the same rules which governed the natural world were also true for our family’s own ecosystem. When I was four, … in the event of a superdrought. Though he didn’t come out and say it, I gathered our location over the … women, ex-cons, transexuals estranged from their fundie relations. The first time my sister and I visited the …
Tsunami Faith
… or to weep. I wasn’t prepared for this, though, for the commotion when the monitors started going haywire, for the … I am not dying and my baby is not dying. I will not let him die. You can’t have him, You cannot have him!, I silently … that illuminates a light for viewing X-rays. “See.” He points to the middle of an X-ray. I look, but I have no idea …
Justice
… Mr. Pribanov (beneath the greasy kid stuff that preserved comb tracks in a plaster cast). The Soviets could produce … of you to the nearest camp. If you share it, you will both die of starvation. Right now, the single precious sliver of … in this Siberia, as I’ve described it, there are only two points of view. “Every” means his and yours, or at most …
The Neutral Love Object
… The Neutral Love Object On the way over to the Island they composed the kind of grouping commonly sought by fashion … course the dog, the obligatory panting Golden retriever obediently sprawled at his master’s feet. The difference being, … slavishly for the sandwich crusts and cake crumbs that were also his birthright. Once at a cocktail party a psychiatrist …
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