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...Museum of Contemporary Art Nestling amid the trees and ponds of People's Park, the dramatic glass Museum of Contemporary Art, www.mocashanghai.org, opened two years ago and is the first privately owned, nonprofit contemporary art museum in the city. And boy is it contemporary. Screens flickering with slick animation created from images of old Shanghai; video projections that shift from fish to pebbles to branches; a roomful of storyboards inspired by manga - when I was there, these were all part of an exhibition tying in with Shanghai eArts, the biggest digital-arts festival in the world. Call...
...spring of 1999, Ramadan Ilazi was among the nearly 1 million ethnic Albanians forced to flee Serb ruler Slobodan Milosevic's attempt to "cleanse" them from Kosovo. It was amid the endless lines of U.N.-issued tents in the Senokos camp in Macedonia that I first met this boy, known to his friends as Dani. As a reporter covering the Albanian exodus, I would talk to scores of refugees. But Dani, who was then 14 years old and looked no more than 10, would prove to be a one-in-a-million encounter...
...article about President Bill Clinton's one-day visit to celebrate victory in Kosovo: "An eighth-grader, Ramadan Ilazi, introduced Clinton, making his first visit to Kosovo since the war ended in June. 'You promised that you will bring us to our homes safe. You kept your promise,' the boy said ... " In the silence of my office, I let out something between a gasp and a scream. Shocked as I was, somehow it all made sense. My young friend was indeed a one-in-a-million...
Heading to the car, I thought back to the tents we were invited into by Albanian refugees in Macedonia when Dani was still a fresh-faced boy of 14. The ethnicity of the sufferers has changed, but not the nature of their suffering - nor the simple hope that it may end. These are truths I might never have seen without Dani...
...boy at one end of the banner was trying to lead a chant: "Howard forever, Kevin never," oblivious to the giant screen behind him, which now read LABOR WINS. Dennis Baker, a law professor down from Queensland, nodded sadly at the message and said, "We are part of a day in history - a sorry, sorry...