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...included artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Arshile Gorky. In the 1940s and '50s, they all lived not far from one another in a combustible concentration on Manhattan's West Side, in Greenwich Village or just south of there. From their continual friction and cross-pollination, a powerful movement was born...
...Still, Beijing is no San Francisco. Openly gay filmmaker Cui Zien says it's still easy to cross an invisible line when it comes to publicly celebrating gay culture. "I organized a gay film festival and the authorities warned us not to advertise the location and the date, not even on the Internet." Despite the restrictions, the festival was allowed to go ahead (unlike some in previous years) and was well attended. Also, since the SARS outbreak in 2003, the government has become more enlightened about AIDS. Cui notes that "there are lots of education programs on safe...
Certainly Yum knows how to cross borders. Since it was spun off from PepsiCo in 1997, the company has radically transformed its overseas business. With Americans stuffed on fast-food options and domestic sales growth a skinny 2% annually, companies like Yum must go global to give Wall Street what it craves. A decade ago, stores overseas brought in less than 20% of profits; today it's 50%. In 2006 the company earned $824 million in net income on total revenue of $9.6 billion...
...This is an action meeting. We know atrocities are being committed,” Mugane said. “Lives are being devastated.” Among the plans discussed was a benefit concert with Kenyan musicians, the proceeds of which will go to the Kenya Red Cross. Karimi J. Gituma, a fifth-year Kenyan student at Harvard Medical School who is organizing the event, said her goal is to raise awareness at Harvard and in the greater Boston community. In the meantime, Harvard Kenyans, an informal social network for Kenyans and East Africans at Harvard and MIT, has established...
...official German and Soviet archives; about 16 million pages of Soviet reports are now housed in the Holocaust Memorial Museum. But Desbois has taken Holocaust research in a new direction. As he sees it, his work is more like "a police investigation," in which he tracks down eye witnesses, cross-checks their stories, and hunts for graves and bullet shells. The resulting voices of hundreds of witnesses provide a window into how a well-organized genocide could occur in these Ukrainian communities with no one choosing, or able, to stop it. That provokes profound questions about culpability and powerlessness...