ALL of 8 results for "Arms"
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The invisible enemy
29 November 1993 • 15,670 words • Reportage & Criticism
Route Ten in western Cambodia leads from the provincial capital, Battambang, the country’s second largest city, to mountains near the Thai border where a no-go… more»
Disaster in Darfur
12 August 2004 • 3,948 words • Reportage & Criticism
Darfur is a 160,000-square-mile expanse of desert and savannah, an area the size of Texas or Spain, with five or six million inhabitants, that spreads… more»
Boycott French!
9 September 1995 • 1,140 words • City of Words
It’s a tough time to be French, at least if you care about world opinion. Eco-activists have been attacking French embassies across the world in protest against… more»
Oh! What a lovely gun!
October 1995 • 1,634 words • City of Words
On a hot afternoon this summer I wandered into the Museum of Mankind in London, past the Easter Island statue in the entrance hall, up… more»
Feasts of fire
2 November 1998 • 1,145 words • City of Words
All Souls, Hallowe’en, Bonfire Night, Diwali. These oddly-assorted festivals stumble over one another as the clocks change. They all fall in the Fall, in autumn,… more»
Children at arms
25 January 1999 • 3,767 words • City of Words
In the 1980s the standard image to emerge from the world’s disaster zones was a skeletal child with despairing eyes, clutching the hand of an… more»
In Khartoum and Jelalabad the misery goes on
25 August 1998 • 884 words • City of Words
The provincial city of Jelalabad, once the winter capital of Afghan kings, stands… more»
