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...People drank a lot of beer, and I wasn’t into that,” Dara Horn ’99 explained to the crowd at Wordsworth Books two Thursdays ago. Horn, a former literature concentrator, current GSAS student and head teaching fellow for last year’s core “Literature and Arts A48: The Modern Jewish Experience,” recently published In the Image, a novel she wrote while studying for a year in Cambridge...
...BEGINNING Clan chief Paulus Dara scratches his head and screws up his face. "How long have we been here? Hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Maybe forever." Dara heads one of nine clans in Bena, a village 18 kilometers south of the hilltop town of Bajawa. Bena, and dozens of villages like it, are almost untouched by tourism or the modern world, earning Bajawa and its cool green surroundings a reputation as a living museum and the cradle of Flores culture...
...bhaga and ngadhu, totems symbolizing female and male. The former looks like a miniature of the distinctive huts' roofline, the latter a kind of umbrella. "The bhaga is a symbol of a room that holds everything a family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more than three meters high, surrounds the village. "When we pray for a good harvest, we say mass, then we sacrifice a pig or buffalo on the stones," Dara says...
...weeks. On March 19, Ecco/HarperCollins) will publish a new paperback edition of "The Essential Lewis and Clark," edited by Lanny Jones, who has reported, written and edited at LIFE, TIME, MONEY, and PEOPLE. In September, Norton will publish "In the Image," the first novel by former TIME intern Dara Horn. Her publisher calls the book "an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers 'a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God.' " Horn received a considerable advance for her book. She is now a doctoral candidate in comparative...
...troops at Dara have been sent to wipe away al-Qaeda's western defenses and sweep over the mountains into Shah-i-Kot. At the same time the 101st Airborne is pressing down from the north, while the enemy?s retreat is blocked by the 10th Mountain Platoon and Special Forces to the east and south. But near Dara the bombs are still falling on the near side of the mountains, meaning the Afghan combat group here still has some way to go. "My next rotation to the front is in three days and I'll be up there...