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...alien controls, boundaries and forms of government. But for the first time since 1444, when the Portuguese sailed into the "land of the blacks" to establish slaving forts, Africa is mostly free from outside interference. Despots are falling; here and there, democracy precariously takes hold. Improvised alternative economies flourish...
...precisely where our ancestors came from, whether they were Fon or Ashanti or Serer, African Americans have tried to adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and cultures that flourish in Africa are we to call our own? What, for example are African Americans raised in the Christian faith to make of religious and cultural traditions such as female circumcision, which is still widely practiced in Africa? I once met a Kikuyu physician in Kenya, who had been educated in London...
...till November) that plays it straight. It helps to have a Carmen who dominates the stage, and Sharon Graham, a young American, scores high. With a fluid, supple mezzo, she revels in the gypsy girl's fatal craving for freedom and her dance toward death, but she avoids phony flourish. More will be heard from Graham, starting with a PBS broadcast of Cavalleria Rusticana on Sept...
Harvard workers most certainly deserve every benefit they are negotiating for. It is due recompense for loyalty, devotion and just plain hard work. Harvard workers anonymously ensure that the University's pre-eminent status remains intact, and its prestige and wealth flourish. They also deserve to deal with the President of the University in person, without delay. Lucinda Ann Scanlon
...with the greater influence that clerical and technical workers' unions have gained on university campuses, Douglas predicts that these unions will remain and continue to flourish...