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...four-year undergraduate degrees, but also for one-and two-year masters programs. Funded by the Agency for International Development (AID), corporations, foundations, and by the universities themselves, SAEP matches up colleges who have offered places with qualified students. The bi-racial selection committee, headed by the Rev. Desmond Tutu, Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, picks from over 900 applicants. Once those chosen receive visas--usually a formality--they are sent to the U.S. for a two-week orientation session before starting school. SAEP, which is an offshoot of the Institute of International Education...
DEADLINES by Desmond Ryan...
...veracity, try Deadlines, written by Philadelphia Inquirer Film Critic Desmond Ryan and crammed with enough lore and craft about U.S. newspapers to qualify the reader for a diploma from the Annenberg School of Communication at Penn. Around a wheezing plot about a young investigative reporter trying to get the Big Story (a U.S. Congressman turns out to be-gasp!-corrupt), Ryan writes knowledgeably about libel law, newsroom computerization, labor disputes, inheritance taxes and galleys of other forces threatening to turn American newspapers into bland copies of one another...
...wild donkeys in Bophuthatswana will be shot on government orders so that more pasture will be available for cattle, sheep and goats. In the Orange Free State tribal settlement area of Onverwacht, 4,000 have reportedly died. These hardships are having serious political and social repercussions. Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches: "I'm fearful that people will begin to kill for food...
...role of James eloquently and who is now artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. As James, Bujones uses his particular aggressive variation on the Bournonville style effectively, and he is nicely complemented by Marianna Tcherkassky's sweet, limpid, almost blurred Sylph. The gorgeous sets by Desmond Heeley are drenchingly romantic, but Bruhn (wisely keeps sentiment in check onstage. A revival of Jerome Robbins' fierce, street-hip New York Export: Op. Jazz has corps kids of the '80s snapping their fingers just like gang squads of the West Side Story era. This ballet shows...