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Although the work is influenced by various Western movements, it is principally concerned with Cuban culture and the Cuban people. Another artist, Morejon, uses mixed media and oil on canvas to convey the effects of communism and Soviet influence on the Cuban population...
With the intention “to convey our concerns and our hopes,” the one-page letter also addressed broader HSPH issues including the move to Allston and the promotion of a Global Health agenda...
...could be part of a strategy to prevent that from happening. It would take away the focal point for dissent that Tung has become, and it would show that China's leaders are responsive to public opinion in Hong Kong. Both Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to convey the image of a kinder, gentler leadership that cares for the masses, even as they maintain a tight grip on power. During the SARS epidemic, for example, Wen sacked China's Health Minister for underplaying the scale of the crisis, and impressed Hong Kongers with his apparent warmth and sincerity...
...President Bashar Assad is extremely stern. The photos and murals of his father and predecessor Hafez Assad, still festooned throughout Syria, are leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question is, Is he really...
...killed some 31,000 people in December 2003. This time, the death toll will be significantly lower. Zarand and the 50 villages affected have a total population of 30,000 and Kerman's deputy governor Mohammad-Javad Fadaee has confirmed more than 600 fatalities so far. Yet statistics cannot convey the implacability of the devastation: at least five villages have been erased. "People had actually built their houses into the mountain," says unicef country representative Kari Egge from Houtkan, a village thought to have lost half of its 800 inhabitants, "so they were just collapsing and sliding down the slopes...