Entranced visitors keep coming back to the Greek island’s south coast — and especially to one remote taverna, writes Aida Edemariam.
Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.
Taking discarded copper pipes was once the preserve of the petty thief, but now there’s big money in copper theft, reports Aida Edemariam from London.
The rise of the author as performer has been accompanied by the rise of a sometimes baffling phenomenon: the signing queue.
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/ 28 February 2008
In 2005, a Nobel prize-winning economist began the painstaking process of calculating the true cost of the Iraq war. In his new book, he reveals how short-sighted budget decisions, cover-ups and a war fought in bad faith will affect us all for decades to come.
Brains being our centres of personality, vision, hearing, motor control, consciousness and, in short, everything that makes us functioning and human, there is a reason why they are encased in very hard bone. And why it is reasonable to assume that breaching that bone is catastrophic.
Once, you might have been stuck for the word to describe an unsightly tummy bulge protruding over low-rise jeans. But “muffin top” is one of hundreds of new words and phrases, along with “wag”, “size zero” and “hoodie”, that have entered the language and are listed in the Collins English Dictionary‘s 9th edition, published recently.
In public, at least, they seem remarkably unfazed by what they have done. And in some senses, of course, they needn’t be. They are a loving couple, who have been together for seven years and want to be with no one else. They have had four children. Beyond these details, however, the story gets more troubling. Patrick and Susan Stubing, who live in Zwenkau, near Leipzig, Germany, are brother and sister.
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/ 20 October 2006
Aida Edemariam profiles Orhan Pamuk and the writings that won him this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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/ 27 February 2006
A letter sent this week to the Mail & Guardian Online heart-rendingly underscores how bad conditions are in many townships.