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Sunday, April 24. The University Choir presents “Choral Evolution: Sacred Texts in Contemporary Settings.” 8 p.m. Memorial Church. $12; students and seniors $6. Tickets availabe at the Harvard Box Office.
The Copy Desk also assesses the evolution of usage in the U.S. A current priority is to eliminate language that is considered sexist. All but gone are such implicitly pejorative nouns as poetess, murderess, coed and comedienne. Sighs Blair: "I have tried to eliminate waitress and actress too, but we...
Maurice Salha, who came to Australia from Lebanon 40 years ago, imports homewares from China, supplying the Mum-and-Dad discount stores some people call "$2 stores" or "junk shops." On a Monday morning in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, his warehouses are abuzz as workers unload newly arrived shipping...
Behind Botha's obdurate stand is the tacit admission that his tentative reforms over the past two years have been less than successful. His white constituents, the majority of them Afrikaners, whose African roots go back to the landing of Dutch settlers in Cape Town in 1652, are more split...
Among South African moderates, too, a debate has been under way for years as to where the country is heading, whether Armageddon will ever come. Many are convinced that new approaches must be tried, as demonstrated by public-opinion surveys suggesting that large numbers of whites would consider power sharing...