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...communist majority. Her successor, Sister Nirmala, was free to give up her Hindu religion and embrace Mother Teresa's philosophy in the Roman Catholic tradition. And politicians of many a hue were wary about interfering with her goodness. Weep not, for much good has come from this frail and wonderful woman. LEKHA SUBAIYA New Orleans
...away from the press with a touching ferocity. "Why has she been forgotten for so long?" says Helmut Schroeder, the former manager of an apartment building where she once lived. He speaks in a thick German accent and refuses to take anyone to see her. "She is very frail," he says. "She is not the kind of person who complains. But I worry for her." She has given his sons an old tennis racket and an old golf club (yes, Tiger Woods, she was a pioneering black pro golfer...
...civil war all but destroyed Cambodia's frail, poorly funded cultural infrastructure; French-trained Khmer curators were murdered; the National Museum was reduced to a bat-infested wreck, its roof caving in, and abandoned for four years after 1975. (It has since been partially repaired by the Australian government, but, as one of the contributors to the show's excellent catalog bluntly observes, "The museum staff lacks the expertise and resources to repair and conserve the sculpture, or to catalogue the collection. [This] can only be rectified with international help.") As if this weren't enough, a major problem around...
...police corralled hundreds of fans. In the video, author WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 84, whose nihilistic novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view of a rampant consumer culture (but they will happily sell you a CD!), frail Burroughs pushes a shopping cart out of the dead city. The band hopes to shoot two more videos during its PopMart tour in the U.S., says manager Paul McGuinness. Commuters, beware! The end is nigh...
...quickening wounds of a million stars." A refrigerator coughs "like a four-pack-a-day smoker," and nothing seems impossible, not even a man killed by a hurricane-blown avocado. Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss...