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...Zheng also shared his thoughts on overseas Chinese-language websites. China's one-party system is "the root of all evil," he wrote in an essay that was one of 63 signed articles he posted on dajiyuan.com, a website popular among Chinese intellectuals. Even though Web surfers in China can't normally access dajiyuan.com$#8212;it's among a long list of sites blacklisted by government censors$#8212;police arrested Zheng last December on charges of inciting subversion. On Sept. 22, he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Beijing had once again sent a stern message to Chinese...
...year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest will. Whatever the motivation, we must...
Marsalis' Essay struck a chord; in addition to his musical talents, he has amazing insight. Perhaps musicians share an understanding that easily transcends racial and class lines. Musicians appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being incidental. Marsalis is right on the mark. Maybe if enough people speak out, as he has, they will pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful...
...Fund and the Rhodes scholarships as his models, and in order to win, Point candidates must prove both academic success and commitment to gay causes. Not surprisingly, many also have biographies resembling Lindstrom's--they come from conservative families that haven't immediately accepted them. Candidates must write an essay on "how you feel you have been marginalized because of your sexual orientation." When scholars were called upon to introduce themselves at the retreat, many offered heartbreaking stories of family repudiation. It was routine to hear sniffling during these presentations, especially from adults...
...have to take advantage of it," he says. Following encouragement by the workers whose craft he had been documenting, Garcetti published Iron, a striking book of his sky-high images, with all proceeds going to the ironworkers' scholarship fund. He followed that with Frozen Music, a limited-edition photo essay about the completed building. This month his latest work, a dazzling travelogue titled Dance in Cuba, hits the bookstores (published, like his previous books, by Balcony Press...