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Participants at U.S. labor rallies tend not to draw inspiration from Indonesian divas - but Kartika Jahja was asked if her jazzy scorcher of a protest song, Mayday (sung in English), could be used by a coalition of writers and journalists at a protest in Detroit. "And we are the ones who work their fields/ And we are the ones who fight their wars," the track goes. "And we are the ones to cut this crap." The passionate defiance is signature Tika (as she's more commonly known), and something that sets the 28-year-old singer-songwriter apart from Indonesia...
...problem is as much visual as it is olfactory. As the bacteria dies, a foul odor wafts from the water. "It's like trying to eat lunch in an outhouse," says English backpacker Brian Thompson, 22, pulling his t-shirt over his nose between bites of chicken at a little lakeside restaurant. "Tell you one thing, I wouldn't eat the fish." One restaurant owner says he's considering closing or renting the space to another operator, at a loss. "We used to have 15 or 20 tables a day. Now we get one," says Pedro Chavajag, 38, owner...
Molly O. Fitzpatrick ’11, a Crimson arts comper, is an English concentrator in Winthrop House...
Khalik had just finished inking his thumbprint onto a "Reintegration Agreement," which had been provided by McCullough and the local District Governor, Abdul Manaf, in whose fortified, shabby office we sat. The agreement, which Manaf had read aloud on account of Khalik's illiteracy, was printed in English and Pashtu. (See intimate photos of the war in Afghanistan...
...departure from a typical book reading, English professor Elisa New—who spoke to a small audience at Harvard Hillel yesterday night—read from her book in different accents and voices to fully capture the dynamic personalities of the characters in her memoir...