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...short, multiracial kids seem to create their own definitions for fitting in, and they show more psychological flexibility than those mixed-race kids who feel bound to one choice or another...
Even so, some of Europe's most hide-bound institutions are realizing that drastic change may not be such a bad thing. France's truculent leftist daily, Libération, was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and a group of former Maoists in 1973. In its early firebrand days, employees from the editor to the janitor all received the same salary. It's been on life support for years, and it's a wonder no one's pulled the plug...
...challenges, rather unwittingly, the way race characterizes those relationships. Yet, though the ideological ramifications of the work resound, they never undermine its artistic integrity. In what was arguably the most arresting and indelible moment of the evening, six female dancers were de-robed. They glided across the stage, seemingly bound in black dresses, but then stepped back. They tilted the dresses to the left and then aligned themselves with its form, recreating the illusion that they were seamless extensions of their figures. The fallacy of the presumption that the costumes were inextricably connected to their bodies, their very selfhood, became...
When two figures as imposing as Igor Stravinsky and W.H. Auden collaborate to produce a work of art, the result is bound to mesmerize. Yet “The Rake’s Progress,” a modern opera first performed in Venice in 1951, is seldom included in the repertoire of major companies due to the common but misguided perception that English opera is inferior to its Italian or German counterpart. Over the past two weekends, the Dunster House Opera sought to correct this under-appreciation of Stravinksy’s work. Though the undertaking was an ambitious...
...lawyers, Islamic scholars and anthropologists. Malaysian investment bankers sat in seminars with social workers from New Zealand, Thai anthropologists and American law professors. Feminist activists traded business cards with Islamic scholars. U.N. officials attended lectures parsing Koranic verses. Catholic and Jewish progressives shared their strategies for taking on hide-bound religious authorities. "Being here, you feel we are not alone," says Shilpa Kashelkar Nipunge, an Indian NGO worker says. "We're all together in this, and it gives us the power in this struggle." (See pictures of Malaysia...