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Nelofer Pazira is not ashamed to admit her fortune: "I have lived a privileged life outside the world of oppression." If she had grown up in the average Afghan home, she would never have gone to school. She would never have been able to leave the war-torn country, as she did with her family in 1989. She would never have learned English or emigrated to Canada, where the Paziras were the only Afghans in the entire province of New Brunswick. She would never have earned a college degree...
...Activists scoff at such creepy comparisons, but some admit they are feeling pressured to dial it down. "The movement has been haunted by the need to have a very measured discourse for fear of being stigmatized as anti-American," complains Mathieu Triclot of Aaarg!, a collective of young French militants. For most activists, however, that may not be such a bad thing. "We were wanting to participate in events where violence was becoming a problem," says Ian Wilmore of Britain's Friends of the Earth. "Now violence is becoming more unacceptable. It strengthens [our] hand...
...when he sang his newest song, “Starlight.” An autobiographical story of homesickness and missing the girl he left behind, “Starlight” had many girls (and some guys—though they’ll never admit it) in tears. “Starlight” is the kind of song every girl wants written about...
Life experiences undoubtedly contribute to any author’s work, however, few writers would admit it as readily as Atwood. During her address and in the interview, Atwood liberally provided her listeners with autobiographical anectdotes that have appeared, only slightly disguised, in her fiction. In fact, Harvard provided the setting for her critically acclaimed 1986 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale...
...toity institution for little ladies in the making. Classmate and designer Johanna Ho, who schooled with Mok before going on to London to study with Stella McCartney, remembers Mok the modest: "She always wore glasses, was a straight-A student, had short hair and braces." Mok's happy to admit she was a nerd, an academic junkie. She won a scholarship to study Italian literature in Trieste and followed it with three years at the University of London. There she met Hong Kong music student Mark Lui, who now writes for Canto-pop royalty Kelly Chen and Leon Lai. Together...