In May, seven youths who tried hanging, poisoning or slashing themselves to death were admitted to the reservation hospital in one 24-hour period.
He and his wife and cousins, six in total, were deported three times before succeeding at the fourth attempt, and the humiliations at the hand of la migra still sting.Everyone's quarryOnce they walked all night through the desert of Arizona, slashing themselves on fences of barbed wire and running out of water, before border-patrol agents ambushed them.
Several reports have emerged from both Nauru and Manus Island, describing how detaines frequently swallow washing powder, slash themselves with razors and broken glass, and attempt to hang themselves with bed sheets, fan cords, and even knitting wool.
The workers sew up the shorter slashes themselves, using surgical thread and needles.
Think of the poets lost to lithium, loony bins and suicide, the jazz musicians strung up and out on heroin, the abstract expressionists who slashed and burned themselves.
Now the episode has achieved a punkish glamour, and has been detailed and, in a way, reënacted by the Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini, whose book "Elements of Beauty" shows portraits of the suffragettes, themselves slashed.
Some of this rock-bottom pricing was in response to the travel downturn following the Sept. 11 attacks, when the cruise lines themselves slashed prices to fill their ships.
That year, the two lawyers, who declined to be interviewed, split control of four of the five foundations between themselves and slashed their fees.
Mr. Oppenheim watched as children mutilated themselves, slashing their arms with broken glass, out of desperation or anger; he watched as they were beaten by shopkeepers; he watched as a beautiful girl with large, vulnerable eyes sniffed Aurolac, a metallic paint, from a bag.
They're trading services and bartering, slashing expenses, evolving themselves and their businesses to suit these desperate times.
