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All the President's Men

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ march 08 ]

In Haiti, "unemployment is running at around 80%, corruption is so much a part of life that they might well hand out MBAs in it, and gangs like the Cannibal Army and the Little Machete Army still control the red zones."

Sabo

by Ron Singer

[ march 08 ]

"When I began reading about the sabo, I was hoping to have unearthed a microcosm of Nigerian unity. Now I just hope the sarkin and his waziri are still in business..."

Jinnah Express

by Michael Griffin

[ february 08 ]

"Rawalpindi bristles with moustaches, messes, gun oil - and whiffs of conspiracy. Seven types of traffic expel a soot of diesel into the mid-winter mist through which the bulked-out silhouettes of suicide bombers stride toward indefensible targets."

Rip off the ears: searching for Demosthenes’ secret in Mexico

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ january 08 ]

"It's difficult to find privacy in Mexico, least of all if you're traveling with a low-budget female impersonator show."

The South African storm season and Zimbabwe

by Stephen Chan

[ december 07 ]

"The Grace Hotel is sometimes full of elderly American tourists, attracted by the claim - without obvious foundation but much pretence - it has one of the world's top 100 restaurants."

Letters from Washington

by Stephen Chan

[ november 07 ]

"Obama will be a relief, a new symbol, in a town where to be a symbol is even greater than being a player."

The negotiator's letter from Beijing

by Stephen Chan

[ november 07 ]

"I also am Chinese and I am flying to a land of immensities that my parents once fled, and I am flying to the northern capital that they never saw..."

Monkey’s biographer writes from Beijing

by Stephen Chan

[ october 07 ]

"[Beijing] is the vengeance of the demon kings, as day succeeds day, and the visitor chokes to death and the resident thinks foulness is normal."

Germans in America

by Joe Palmer

[ october 07 ]

On the occasion of Ken Burns's The War

Shopping in Fortress America

by Ray Nayler

[ september 07 ]

"Safety does not exist here, outside or inside the walls. One moment you are alive and feeling safe; and the next minute you are dead."