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...former member of the Haitain Senate, Reynald Georges, an outspoken political opponent who appeared on international television and in foreign newspapers in recent days criticizing the junta. Georges was in hiding this evening after a private clinic removed three bullets from his back and arm. Haiti's de facto authorities, meanwhile, ordered local news outlets to stop issuing "foreign propaganda" or face closure or take-over. One local radio station fudged the issue by vowing to keep delivering the news -- without labeling the military-backed authorities "de facto...
...reforms under the new, black-led government. Incredibly, Darwin's century-old grip on schools around the world never took hold in South Africa, where Dutch-descended white Afrikaners considered evolution too controversial for their Christian-based curriculum. TIME Johannesburg bureau chief ScottMacLeod says today's announcement, the de facto abandonment of a state religion, capped five years of subtle changes to break with the Afrikaner culture and symbols. "Lots of little things were done," MacLeod says. "They stopped using the old national anthem so there would be no national anthem, and at the Olympic games in 1992, they used...
Gary Mueller, the paper's former news editor, called the paper's exclusion from the mailing "de facto censorship...
Verghese arrived in small-town Appalachia two months later as an infectious- disease specialist, and soon found himself the de facto expert on the new plague. His main enemies were ignorance and prejudice, his own and other people's: he met transcriptionists who would run away so as not to have to type up his examinations of gay patients, and dentists who would refuse to see unmarried men. In the tradition of the best doctor-writers, from Somerset Maugham to Ethan Canin, Verghese took it all down with a fine mix of compassion and precision, understanding not only...
...being less worthwhile; therefore here a department is really the only way to ensure a secure and strong program. The sociology department's interest in ethnic studies is encouraging, sociological study being an important dimension of ethnic studies, but at the same time limiting, being one that de facto lacks the interdisciplinary approach necessary to achieve a full understanding of the ethnic experience in America...