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Most great writers have a knack for bringing their characters to life. But only Ngugi wa Thiong'o could write a character so convincing he almost gets arrested. In 1986, while the author's native Kenya was suffocating under President Daniel arap Moi's oppressive rule, Ngugi wrote Matigari, a novel whose eponymous hero travels the country protesting against the regime. Because [an error occurred while processing this directive] Matigari posed questions Kenyans were afraid to ask, they talked about him as if he were real, the way soap-opera fans and comic-book lovers do. "The regime thought there...
...hard to believe that the majestic new addition to the Denver Art Museum is Daniel Libeskind's first completed building in the U.S. In 2003 Libeskind won the competition to design the master plan for the World Trade Center site. For the next year or two, he was so pervasive a media presence--the black glasses, the Polish accent, the inexhaustible cheer--that you half expected a spiky Libeskind tower to erupt soon on every street corner. Then the Trade Center project got away from him. The New York City developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers brought...
...executive committee, wrote in the letter. “Although no conflict currently exists and while I would have liked to remain involved, I have with great regret concluded that I should resign from the board at this time.” —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...could take over a Broadway stage. There hasn't been much for him to do on Broadway since then - although he did cop a Tony for his tour-de-force performance in a revival of Little Me - so it took Short himself (along with Shaiman, Wittman and co-writer Daniel Goldfarb) to come up with the ideal vehicle for his ironic but totally ingratiating stage personality...
...select vintages. Investors wanting to cash out after the minimum one-year holding period may redeem their shares for actual bottles of wine, which can be drunk or resold at a profit (or loss) by a wine broker. "It's a physical fund, and it's very liquid," quips Daniel Truchi, the CEO of SocG?n's private-banking operation in Asia. The minimum investment in the fund...