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...students present in Belfast will greatly influence future urban development in the city. “What we present there is what will have the most impact,” Sommer said. “[It will] allow them to see their city differently through the way we draw and analyze...
...openings.") He's a native of San Francisco, the child of a Spanish-born shipyard worker and a Jewish mother who took an early interest in her son's talent as an artist. "To compete with my older brother for my parents' affections, I would draw all the time as a boy," he says. "After about the third grade, my mother started taking me to museums and introducing me as her son the artist. She also told my older brother he was going to become an attorney. And he became an attorney." He shrugs. "The strength of a Jewish mother...
...Social workers say that it's paradoxically the shrinking size of the Japanese family that is raising pressure on parents. Where young couples would have once been able to draw on the extended clan for support and advice, urbanization and atomization have amputated those ties. "Families are more isolated now, and parents are backed into a corner," says Jun Saimura, head of social work research at the Japan Child and Family Research Institute. "In the old days, if young parents had a problem, they could seek advice from the neighbors in their community. But that local community is weakened...
...early books included coarse stereotypes, and Hergé has been accused of racism in Tintin in Congo (although this book is particularly popular in Africa). Hergé was later arrested for being a wartime collaborator as he continued to draw cartoons for newspapers that were controlled by the Nazi occupiers during World War II. He spent a night in prison, but his file was eventually closed without legal action. But rumors and insinuations followed him for the rest of his life, and he had frequent bouts of depression...
...outset that I am loath to pen my name to yet another piece on the man. Critics understand that our judgments often take on lives of their own—write too much about somebody, and you risk spurring a dozen contrarians to their defense. Or one might draw attention to bad ideas. But I make an exception in the case of Cornel West, where I feel the truth cannot be repeated often enough. Cornel West raps like a 12-year old girl...