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...author of some 20 plays, seven novels and several collections of poetry, he has also been an outspoken critic of Nigerian despots since the 1960s and mediated between indigenous people and oil companies in the Niger Delta. His latest work, a memoir, is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn. Last week, he met Time's Andrew Purvis and Regine Wosnitza in Berlin. Why did you decide to write a new memoir and what have you learned from it? That is a good question. Certainly I did not want to write this memoir in the way it turned...
...Israeli village of Netiv Ha'asara, the familiar notes of conflict - periodic incoming rocket fire and the alerts that attend it, the more sustained outgoing artillery barrages - have fallen silent. But the peace won't last. A few hours later, loudspeakers emit the booming call - "shachar adom" [red dawn] - that warns residents a rocket has been launched from Gaza. They have 20 seconds to get to their bomb shelters. "It's a routine," says Pnina, 59. "Unfortunately, we are getting used...
...party was quick to exult. "National Democrats did not discover their shock wave in San Diego," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds, who runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact that momentum for the midterm elections will not materialize simply because they preordain it in the media or because they ask their special interest friends to buy it for them. The results in San Diego show that nothing has happened...
...understanding global human heritage. Imagine if the great library of Alexandria survived today. How much richer would the world and collective human culture be if we could draw from that vast collection of ancient knowledge? The Lascaux cave is our proto-Alexandria, humanity's library of prehistory from the dawn of our ancestors' impulse to record. We must take immediate steps to ensure that generations of our descendants have the benefit of Lascaux's lessons. Melody K. Di Piazza International Committee for the Preservation of Lascaux New York City...
...understanding global human heritage. Imagine if the great library of Alexandria survived today. How much richer would the world and collective human culture be if we could draw from that vast collection of ancient knowledge? The Lascaux cave is our proto-Alexandria, humanity's library of prehistory from the dawn of our ancestors' impulse to record. We must take immediate steps to ensure that generations of our descendants have the benefit of Lascaux's lessons. Melody K. Di Piazza International Committee for the Preservation of Lascaux New York City Sugar-Free Schools While some may criticize the deal that former...