Sundaes with Chavez
caracas — Despite previous disappointments, I always retain the faint hope that the hotel I have booked will turn out to be a delightful little place that perfectly captures the …
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The First Responders
Killology in Colorado
Read MoreTruth and Reconciliation in Montreal
The Memorial Room at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre / Photograph by Pierre St.Jacques, courtesy of the MHMC montreal — Three years ago, on a day in October, Ann Ungar …
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North America is lucky. As two polities tied to Britain, one war-like and fit to be tied, the other much less so, the continent was settled after the notion of …
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A Ridiculously Brief History of Rwanda
Like all major events, there are both complex and over- simplified versions of the Rwanda genocide. While there were distinguishable groups called Hutu and Tutsi before the colonial era, these …
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Con Artist
Sometimes I choose the materials, but sometimes they choose me
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Grocery-Store Wars
new glasgow—Pictou County is in the part of Nova Scotia bordered to the north by the Northumberland Strait. Here, my ancestors, among others, spent centuries trying to farm the same …
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A safer-sex billboard near the airport in Lusaka: many young Zambian males believe sorcery may be to blame for HIV/AIDS / Photograph by Patrick Kayukwa lusaka—In 2002, Zambia State Insurance …
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Land Mines and Looters
phnom penh—I was climbing across the crumbling remains of Beng Melea, a one-kilometre-square temple complex built early in the twelfth century in northwestern Cambodia, and said to be the model …
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Ford is an American Novelist.
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