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...means," says Armen Arutunian, a doctor. "The world community should intervene. There already have been too many victims, so many losses." Antigovernment demonstrations are on the rise, but the President has little room to maneuver. A militantly nationalist opposition, supported by the several-million-strong Armenian diaspora around the world, rejects the slightest concession over Nagorno-Karabakh, even to arrange a cease-fire. The Azeris have proved just as unbending...
...also awarded $450 to Diaspora, a journal of Black culture, overruling the Finance Committee's recommendation of no funding. The council increased funding for the Phillips Brooks House Mission Hill After-school Program from a recommended...
Still, Appiah feels "race" is a category we can do without, He rarely uses the word without quotation marks around it, and calls it a biologically meaningless, even dangerous method of classifying people. The notion that people of the African diaspora are united by a common "racial" heritage is a fiction invented by the Western mind, he says...
Besides regularly contributing to philosophical and cultural publications, he coedits, with Gates, Transition, a journal "which looks at the world from within the African diaspora." This summer, he completed a manuscript of a book of proverbs from Asanti, the kingdom in which he grew up. And he is currently editing The Oxford Book of African Literature...
...sophomore year at Harvard Kevin refounded Diaspora, which billed itself as "The Journal of Black Thought and Culture. "The first issue of Diasporawas impressive both in its scope and size. The magazine was 95 pages and contained student works as well as an interview with Angela Davis and a feature on new Black filmmakers. "You couldn't do 'Black Film' in an issue, because it just got huge--you couldn't fit it all," Kevin says...