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...Africa - and made Moi very nervous. Ngugi first started writing in the '60s, under his original name, James Ngugi, and in English: the leftover colonial language still revered in parts of today's Africa, where schools punish students for speaking African languages. Pushing aside the influences of his childhood curriculum - William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, T.S. Eliot - he instead dipped into Africa's storytelling history. "The tradition from which I came was that of the realism of the 19th-century English novel," he says. "It was very limiting in terms of imagination, time and space. The folkloric tradition frees the imagination...
...ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father can. And many do. Men are scared of other people's pain," he writes. Veltroni, who has already penned seven works of nonfiction, says writing is an escape. "Writing relaxes me," he told Time. "It's what comes easiest." Known...
...destruction in Lebanon took me back to World War II and images of the devastation in Europe. But sadder still were the pictures of the young boys in Hizballah's al-Mahdi scout club being taught to hate their fellow man. They are being robbed of their childhood and often their life too, all in the name of religion. Derek J. Waite Toronto...
...gain some traction in what can often be an uncertain year for the “new meat.” (Read: You will take most of your exams still drunk.) Or, if you’re feeling daring or have been living in a cave your whole childhood, take a language that you have never encountered previously—something off the beaten path. Classes in uncommon languages tend to be much smaller and involve a high degree of personal attention with top-notch professors...
...blackness of the early universe can't be studied in detail until telescope technology makes another great leap. But Ellis and Stark may have got a glimpse--and given theorists the first hard evidence--of that unimaginably distant time when the cosmos left infancy behind and entered the formative childhood that led, eventually, to our sun and the tiny blue planet that circles it. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Illuminating a Dark Age How the universe grew from a murky soup to twinkling galaxies Looking for the beginning of time...