compare and contrast

You know that lady neurscientist who is on trial, Aafia Saddiqui? There's recent activity...

ny times's version

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/nyregion/18siddiqui.html?scp=4&sq=aafia&st=cse

le monde's version

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-37652302@7-37,0.html

It's interesting to note that NY times' version has no mention of her hallucinations about her kids who are dead, or about the shady-ness surrounding her imprisonment, instead implying she is guilty of affiliation or at least of being sketchy.

Youth (M. Radnoti)

When Columbus stepped onto the noisy beach trailed by his drunken sailors, a fragrant wind started to blow, a nest fell at his feet, a green monkey, shaking its fists, ran up to him. He felt he knew how eternity begins. His large eyes twinkled, his tired eyelids itched. He shrugged and whispered something over his shoulder. (translated from the Hungarian by Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, and S.J. Marks)