Originally published in The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 29.Brilliant opening line: "A Yankee cap- and Ray-Ban-wearing boy of indeterminate age gets out of a car that has just stopped." Note the familiar use of American signifiers, and how readily they cloak the boy's true purpose, revealed at the latter part of this paragraph: "new conscripts drafted into the Shabaab-led i…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:16AM on December 29, 2010