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DIED. CHARLES B. HUGGINS, 95, Canadian-born medical researcher who won the Nobel Prize in 1966 for hormone studies leading to the use of drug therapies for cancer, previously treated mostly by surgery and radiation; in Chicago...
...order to apply our energy to international issues we need to start breaking down the barriers to affiliation and personal connection. When terrorists attack Israel, Harvard Students for Israel instantaneously reacts. Other regional groups from the South Asian Association to the Canadian Club to the Irish Cultural Society respond to events in their respective countries by educating the student body and enlisting their support. But, regardless of our personal connections, we should all feel some common humanitarian concern. Unfortunately, unless we feel some direct allegiance to the specific racial, ethnic or regional group, we often prove indifferent to world-wide...
...Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook Night Song (Real World/Caroline). Khan, a huge star in his native Pakistan, is a singer of qawwali--Sufi religious music that, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Here, with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan sings of earthly love; the spiraling, urgent songs are mostly in Urdu, but Khan's passion and purpose need no translation...
...Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau collaborated to create this definitive anti-coffee-table book, an eccentric and exhaustive assemblage of Koolhaas' building designs, jottings and musings. It even has pages of charts showing how his practice has fared over the years. It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked through...
...China Blues (Anchor Books). Jan Wong, the privileged daughter of Chinese-Canadian parents in Montreal, became a true-believing Maoist and decided in 1972 to return to the land of her ancestors. The journey was bumpy and led to disillusionment--and also to this lively and shrewd reminiscence. Wong still loves China, but she can laugh at it and her youthful enthusiasms...