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...flowering of Khmer architectural genius-namely, the New Khmer Architecture that emerged in Phnom Penh amid the heady national pride that followed Cambodia's independence from France in 1953. Building Cambodia documents the tragically short-lived style that resulted in a spate of striking buildings until its demise amid civil war and genocide not two decades later. Taking seven years of research to complete, and packed with rare photographs and illustrations, the 334-page hardback pays tribute to this remarkable cultural interlude when King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated the throne to personally oversee a 17-year construction boom. Implausible...
...Last month, Harvard lost the Civil Rights Project to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), when the center’s co-founder and director, Gary Orfield, decided to relocate to UCLA, where he will now co-direct the center with his wife, Patricia Gandara, also an education scholar...
...adults about positive alternatives to violence, according to its Web site. Jones began his social outreach career by joining Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Operation Breadbasket in the 1960s, according to the Web site of the Academy of Achievement in Washington D.C. King’s civil rights group was dedicated to promoting urban economic development. Jones was also a founder, along with Jesse L. Jackson, of Operation People United to Serve Humanity, which today aims to fulfill similar goals as King’s former group. According to a press release, Jones himself was mentored...
...take a place forever in the consciousness of those lucky to have been part of what Dylan has given us. But these ones come from equally interesting places, from all the musical, literary and other traditions to which the genius of Dylan has cosied up over the decades, from Civil War America, from the Delta and Atlanta blues of the 1930’s, from poems and melody “from many moons ago,” to use his words. The last line of its last song is even borrowed from the exile poetry of Ovid, 2000 years...
...judiciary, and three former presidents (including Eduardo Frei, a Marxist and former supporter of Allende) for his abuses. Finally, with many certain that a coup was inevitable given the hyperinflation (a paycheck from one week could not even afford bread in the next week), starvation, recession, and extreme civil unrest, General Augusto Pinochet took power on Sept...