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For the last Iraq-bound National Guard unit to leave New Jersey, Wednesday was a long day that began with tears and goodbye kisses by dawn's early light in Teaneck and ended at a dusty Army training base in the New Mexico desert. Memoir review: Palestinian's paths narrowing (San Francisco Chronicle)
Palestinian Walks Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape By Raja Shehadeh Scribner; 200 pages; $15 paperback On a hilltop enclave near Ramallah, a West Bank settler gazing toward the Judean Mountains reaches for his rifle, alarmed by a lone and unrecognizable man... Review: 'The Children of Huang Shi' (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
If good intentions produced good movies, "The Children of Huang Shi" would be a classic. It's a saga about a selfish man overcoming his base instincts and leading a band of orphans to safety across a war-ravaged landscape.
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