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...Canada (March 24-25), to England for five shows (March 29-April 4) and then back to North America for a slew of U.S. appearances. Catch him wherever you can. This is not only an opportunity to encounter one of the last living links to the world of Delta Blues?it's a chance to see a man who has never lost the common touch, or his love of humanity and its frailties, despite decades of wealth and adulation. That's the mark of a real king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curtain Raiser | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...This is not only an opportunity to encounter one of the last living links to the world of Delta Blues - it's a chance to see a man who has never lost the common touch, or his love of humanity and its frailties, despite decades of wealth and adulation. That's the mark of a real king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Live the King | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...prisoner didn't trust his lawyer at the start, refusing even to speak with her. She did what she could to win his confidence, donning a hijab, the head covering worn by observant Muslim women, when she visited him at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Eventually, he began to ask how his aging father in Saudi Arabia made contact with her, how he could be sure she was not another interrogator trying to extract more information from him. "He asked me the same questions over and over," says Gitanjali Gutierrez. "He desperately sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Life Inside Gitmo | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Gutierrez's December meetings with al-Qahtani took place at Guantanamo's Delta Camp 5, which the military calls a "maximum security, semi-permanent, hardened facility." Thick cement walls loom over the tropical landscape. Inside are two-story cellblocks branching out from a guard station. Thick metal doors seal tiny cells; no one but Military Police can see in or out except for surveillance on closed-circuit television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detainee 063: A Broken Man? | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose their lives.” Witt also called for carefully orchestrated urban planning in the reconstruction of New Orleans and a commitment to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi delta. Approximately fifty people, primarily faculty and graduate students, attended the symposium. Panelist Frederic Schwartz, a New York-based architect and a former visiting design critic at the Graduate School of Design, regretted the lack of undergraduates in attendance, saying that “when you learn, you can also help...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Forum Takes on Disasters | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

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