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...rescuing the lives of its Jewish inhabitants. Many Jews were ferried to safety through fishing routes, so that water and light become working metaphors of representation and remembrance. The piece also thematizes the more recent and problematic immigration of refugees from the Balkans and former Soviet Union seeking asylum in Denmark. More personal is the series Untitled Memory (Projections), in which photographs of the artist's family and friends are cast upon the surfaces of his San Francisco apartment, creating an intimate and deceptively real experience...
...Friday, Fidel Castro drew more than 2 million people into Cuba's streets to demand the return of the boy, who is currently staying with a great-aunt and great-uncle in Miami. The same day, Florida relatives filed a claim for political asylum on the boy's behalf, to prevent him from returning home to his natural father, with whom he remains close. While the U.S. has urged Elian's father to make a formal claim with immigration authorities, legal challenges by the boy's relatives - backed by Cuban exile organizations - are likely to delay his early return...
...only finished product shown this fall has been an episode of the sitcom "The Asylum," which was shown in Loker two weeks...
...Convenient Peabody Terrace is a neutral polity for drivers seeking parking asylum. It caters to people ready to fight for their cars and slide by the lottery process. Franklin J. Leonard '00, has kept a car at Peabody since last year and followed the advice of his roommate to obtain a prime spot--ignore the lottery. "Ask for Peabody Terrace," he says. "They'll give...
June Erlick, the publications director at DRCLAS, said she became profoundly aware of the restrictions on the press in Colombia when her published interviews of author and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, caused him to seek asylum in Mexico because of death threats...