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June 18, 2012
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
Joe Sacco
When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy. It’s dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate. Award-winning comic-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...
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Inspecteur Moroni: Le Syndrome de Stockholm
Guy Delisle
Le quartier de la raffinerie de pétrole Sylphex est bouclé par les forces de l'ordre: un forcené retient les salariés en otage. Pour comprendre ses motivations, apparemment inintelligibles, le chef de la police décide d'appliquer une nouvelle méthode de haute volée, dite << du feu par le feu >>. Cette technique consiste à confronter des caractères de même nature afin de faciliter le dialogue. Bien évidemment, le profil psychologique qui ressort de la grille d'analyse correspond à celui de l'inspecteur Moroni. Moroni, flic nul et névropathe, est donc envoyé en première ligne pour négocier avec Eugène Puthoff. Une fois dans la place, Puthoff lui apprend que son action ne vise qu'à médiatiser une invention révolutionnaire que l'industrie pétrochimique aurait étouffée : le moteur qui fonctionne avec de l'eau! Partageant les intentions écologiques de son kidnappeur, Moroni décide d’aider Puthoff dans sa cavale. Mais il ignore qu’en réalité la Sylphew a viré ce dernier pour avoir pris des photos dans les toilettes des dames..
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Letters from Burma
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was sentenced to six years' house arrest in Rangoon in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. In this collection of writings from her imprisonment, Aung San Suu Kyi paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. Letters from Burma evokes the country's seasons, customs, festivities and celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, and actors who risked their reputations and careers by their support of the National League for Democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi reveals an acute insight into the impact of political limitations on peoples' lives by examining the effects of inflation on the national diet and advocating better healthcare and educational programs. This woman's vision, humanity, and commitment to political and ethnic harmony won her party an overwhelming victory in the elections of May 1990; every facet of her personality is powerfully displayed in these revelatory letters.
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