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...forces in Asia loved reading TIME during the war, though the editions that they received?called ponies or colts?were miniature versions of the magazine. Still, the small size does not seem to have discouraged readers. As one document in our archives states: "Over-the-shoulder reading stimulated demand for the magazine among foreign civilians." In fact, Henry R. Luce, TIME's co-founder and editor-in-chief, had drafted a plan for an overseas organization for Time Inc. as early as 1943. At the end of the war, Charles D. Jackson, a vice president of the company...
...spare their male relatives a jail term. In the province of Batman (pop. 500,000) hospital records show there have been 31 attempted female suicides this year, already more than last year's total, and five women have died, although the total number of actual suicides is impossible to document. "Women are locked away in a room with a rope and put under pressure. Or they might be forced to take rat poison," says Nebahat Akkoc, founder of Ka-Mer, a women's rights group in Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the south-east. Last week the U.N. sent Yakin...
...April, Harvard officially notified Boston of its desire to amend its existing Institutional Master Plan, a longterm document that Boston requires all universities to submit outlining the intended uses of their property...
...June, the city of Boston will formally respond to the University’s amendments in a document intended to incorporate neighborhood concerns...
...also continues a French fascination with Australia's indigenous culture that began when Napoleon sent scientific voyages to the South Pacific. Napoleon's artists were the first to document Tasmania's Aborigines as individuals rather than types, even recording their songs and dance. "It's a tradition that's been rich and sustained over a long period of time," says Susan Hunt, curator of the 1999 show "Terre Napol?on: Australia Through French Eyes." "So this hasn't just come from nowhere." Indeed, during the 1950s, Paris-based artist Karel Kupka was the first to collect Arnhem Land barks as pieces...