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Finding an orchestra wasn't the only challenge she faced. For an art form devoted to exalting the human spirit, classical music is plagued by painfully unenlightened gender politics. Up until the middle of the 20th century, it was rare for orchestras to hire female instrumentalists, let alone female conductors. The Vienna Philharmonic was all male until 1997, when under the pressure of popular opinion it finally hired a female harpist. Among the top 75 symphony orchestras in the U.S., there are still only three female conductors. "The last domain of gender within the music business is the position...
...between O Tamaiti and Still Life, the serious filmmaker let down her hair in Velvet Dreams (1997), a playful documentary about the mid-20th century school of white painters who rendered dusky Pacific maidens on black velvet. Splicing interviews with anthropologists, art critics and a memorable Reverend Mua, who "rarely gets to meet topless women in his line of work," over a soundtrack of Hawaiian slide guitar and a fictional detective narrator, Urale wittily debunks the myth of flower-behind-the-ear Polynesian womanhood. Yet through her lens, she can see both sides of the beach. "The really neat thing...
...fair, and the resulting verdict was the only one possible under the circumstances. Given the global problem of child exploitation, Time showed a remarkable lack of responsibility and sensitivity. Keith Noble Nontahburi, Thailand Of Terrorism and Detainees I appreciated your article on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th hijacker of 9/11, who is being held in the prison at Guantá namo Bay [June 20]. Although I do not approve of torture, I think European nations and the U.S. should fight Islamic extremism by any means. Europe is vulnerable because of its laxity in responding to the hate...
...opioids--medicine originally derived from poppies--dates back thousands of years. They were widely available in the U.S. until the public, alarmed by the growing number of addicts, called for strict anti-narcotics laws in the early 20th century. In the public mind, opioids such as morphine and laudanum, although they remained the most effective pain relievers, became associated with their illegal cousins--heroin and opium--and doctors often shied away from prescribing them...
Dazzling tales of newfound wealth aren't new to China. In fact, in the southern coastal province of Guangdong, the nouveaux riches are old news. Villages around the town of Kaiping are still filled with their architectural legacy, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries when large numbers of Guangdong peasants joined the great migration of Chinese workers abroad. Many went to North America or Australia as laborers. Others established small businesses and came back relatively prosperous. To display their new wealth - and protect it from floods and roving bandits common at the time - they built spectacular...