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...from a development advocate, Jamie Drummond, that pointed out that although Live Aid raised $200 million, Ethiopia alone paid $500 million in annual debt service to the world's lending institutions. After contacting Drummond, Bono signed on as a spokesman for Jubilee 2000, a church-based campaign born in England that asked governments to use the millennium as an occasion to cancel Third World debt. Bono, who spends most of his nontouring time in Dublin with Hewson and their four children, started flying to Washington for weekends at the World Bank with his friend Bobby Shriver, a son of Eunice...
...Sugimoto exploits the power (or perhaps the weakness) of the camera's single eye to flatten perspective and encourage illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII of England and his six wives. In Sugimoto's rendering, it is as if the royals had traveled from the 16th century to sit for official portraits. Subverting our assumptions about reality and illusion has long been one of the bedrocks of Sugimoto's career. "Ever since photography was invented," he explains...
...exactly what is amiss at the exclusive English private school Hailsham. But something is definitely off. The teachers are afraid of the students. The students are afraid of the forest. And nobody wants to put into words just what exactly is going on here. Set in a creepy alterna-England, Never Let Me Go is a horror novel, but it's less about fear than it is about a deep, existential sadness that the world is such a horrifying place. By the time you learn the secret it's much too late: you've been drawn into this strange amalgam...
...with his diabetes and occurred while he was vacationing with Lora Martino, his wife of 36 years. Born in Plainfield, N.J. in 1931, Martino taught music for over 20 years. Martino joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard in 1983 after teaching at Princeton, Yale, The New England Conservatory, and Brandeis. He retired ten years later for the sole purpose of devoting himself to composition. “He was happiest when he was writing music,” Lora Martino said. Although labeled as a Serial or a 12-tone composer, Martino never seemed to agree with...
...collapse of the administration's position on torture-and, despite the protestations that it was not a U-turn, it was-echoes another recent reversal. This week, the administration elevated "stability missions"-aka "nation building"-alongside of major combat operations. In a November directive, acting deputy defense secretary Gordon England told his combat commanders around the world to make sure post-combat stability ops are coordinated with the State Department. On Wednesday, Bush formally designated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to spearhead efforts to rebuild nations following wars or insurrection...