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...Diemen's Land, (Black Inc., 388 pages) historian James Boyce argues compellingly that such a story wasn't true for all settlers. His focus is "the ordinary people" of early Tasmania, which as Van Diemen's Land received nearly half of all convicts shipped to Australia. Settled in 1803, it was soon ignored by London (at war with France) and Sydney (busy keeping its own population fed and under control), and, short on food supplies, set about fending for itself. Which it did, as Boyce shows, very well. For where Sydney's thick coastal scrub thwarted hunters, Van Diemen...
...Boyce's account of the Aborigines' doom in an appendix deserves a separate book. His chief focus remains a vivid recreation of the lives of the convicts who adapted so creatively to the Australian landscape. Though they, and not the free settlers who arrived later, were the founders of Tasmania, history has depicted them as merely savage. Yet their success as "bush entrepreneurs," living on and using the land they were let loose upon, was unmatched in the Australian colonies. Yes, they did harm - introducing pests, wiping out species - but they were also changed by the land, and many loved...
...That focus, however, often comes at the price of being able to compete with some of Division I’s athletic powerhouses...
...Since it was founded in 1997, the Center has been led by Professor Mark H. Moore, who will remain a part of the Executive Team as Faculty Chair. The Executive Team, comprised of three members, will be completed today with the arrival of Executive Director Aviva Luz Argote. While focusing primarily on international humanitarian efforts, Stone said he hopes to develop the Center’s presence on campus. “We want to work collaboratively, do joint projects with many other organizations around the University,” he said. “We can provide workshops...
...past, people like the Currenses voted Republican-because of abortion or guns or bloody-shirt patriotism. This year they want a different conversation, about big things-the economy, America's place in the world, their children's future. This is not McCain's favorite conversation; he'd much rather focus on his-deeply simplistic, as he presents it-view of the war in Iraq, the false nonchoices of "victory" or "surrender...