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...Vespa Girls used to be an institution at the University of Indonesia (UI). Back in the 1970s, these daughters of ?lite families would take breaks from their studies at Indonesia's best university by cruising on Italian two-wheelers, their miniskirts grazing their upper thighs. Sometimes, certain Vespa Girls wore no underwear. Today's UI, still the state-run breeding ground for the nation's future leaders, is a very different place. Half the female student body striding across the campus near Jakarta wear the jilbab, a Muslim scarf that covers the head and neck. Student politics is dominated...
...However, managing public anger can be a perilous task. So far, Thailand's ruling junta has enjoyed remarkable domestic support, particularly among the urban ?lite who normally might have been counted upon to support a democratic transition over a military coup. Nevertheless, cracks are appearing in the generals' popularity. Though coup leader Sonthi Boonyaratglin is a member of Thailand's Muslim minority, insurgent attacks in the south have increased since his administration took office. Sonthi has also been criticized for meddling in the drafting of Thailand's new constitution. And even though the junta put technocrats in charge...
...Cutting through the myths and gossip, Dalmia shows that Sher-Gil was a serious artist intent upon bridging the gulf between the Western-educated Indian ?lite to which she belonged, and the impoverished millions surrounding them. She wrote of traveling through India and finding it full "of dark-bodied, sad-faced, incredibly thin men and women who move silently looking almost like silhouettes." She decided her task would be "to interpret the life of Indians, particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those images of infinite submission and patience." This she did like no one before her, filling canvases with...
INDUCTED. Assia Djebar, 69, Algerian writer and filmmaker, into the ?lite Acad?mie fran?aise, its first member from France's former North African colonies; in Paris. In a writing career spanning half a century, Djebar has won acclaim for tackling difficulties faced by women in Muslim societies. Currently a professor of French literature at New York University, Djebar becomes one of only 40 "immortals," as the Acad?mie's members are known...
...next century, China's relations with the U.S. would swing between near adulation and vilification. Amid the turmoil of China's imperial collapse, warlordism, Japanese invasion and civil war, thousands of Chinese went to study at American universities. For a time, most of the country's ?lite officials, scholars and scientists were U.S.-trained. But that came to an abrupt halt with the Communists' victory in 1949. A year later, Sino-American relations hit their nadir during what Chinese call the "War to Resist America and Aid Korea," which left hundreds of thousands of Chinese dead, along with more than...