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Following the handling of the Asian tsunami disaster, the United Nations has come under fire. Said one columnist of London’s The Times on Monday, ”The blunt truth is that on…
When I was a child, we had a big book of black-and-white photographs at home. One has always haunted me, though it was only much later that I found out where and when it was…
In the outer security zone of the Palestine and Sheraton hotels in Baghdad, beyond the tanks, are the Al-Andalus apartments and the Al-Andalus Internet café. It was there that –…
Long before I arrived at the Iraq frontier I was thoroughly alarmed. On our 320km desert drive through Jordan, my driver, Ziad, wound me up. ”Near Baghdad,” he said, ”many Ali…
The Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this week managed to get to Bam, three days after the earthquake that may have killed 30 000 of his fellow Iranians. President…
Men sharing a girl is, if you think about it, as gay as kissing on the lips after a goal; it is a way to have sex with your comrades without actually touching them. That is, in…
Matt Barr is 21, the same age that I was the year the Vietnam War ended and the last disgraced vestiges of American intervention were airlifted over the rooftops of Saigon. In…
