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The Elephant Chief

By Tik Root, on April 14, 2016

Searching for Rwanda's tortured icon. Read More

Look at Me

By Edwidge Danticat,

I grew up under the watchful gaze of my dead grandmother lying in her coffin. Her funeral had been meticulously documented and a series of 4? × 6? black-and-white photographs…

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By Moira Weigel, on March 24, 2009

The House of Representatives, reacting to a plan by AIG to pay its executives as much as $218 million in bonuses, voted 328 to 93 in favor of a 90-percent…

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By Paul Ford, on May 27, 2008

President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and 432 in Afghanistan. Later, for the last time…

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By Claire Gutierrez, on October 30, 2007

An American cattleman. Wildfires spread from north of Los Angeles to south of San Diego, killing at least seven people, consuming more than 1,800 homes, burning a half-million acres, setting…

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By Claire Gutierrez, on August 28, 2007

An American cattleman. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned.New York TimesThe CIA’s inspector general released a report recommending that former CIA director George Tenet and other senior officials be held accountable…

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By Chantal Clarke, on July 10, 2007

At least 150 Iraqis were killed by a truck bomb in northern Iraq in possibly the deadliest bombing since the United States invaded in 2003, and it was reported that,…

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The Elephant Chief

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Ouagadougou nights

Before punk came funk

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The Elephant Chief

Look at Me

Ouagadougou nights

Before punk came funk

Weekly Review

Untitled

Weekly Review

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June 2007