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...Hwang grew up in a hardscrabble village in the Korean countryside and remembers eating tree bark and grass roots to survive in the aftermath of the Korean War. His father died when Hwang was five, and his mother owned three cows that she bred for calves. The money kept the family going?cowpats heated their home?and it was Hwang's job to care for the animals after school. He was the only one in his class to get past elementary school, and his mother hoped he could become the village scribe, the most prestigious local...
...there is a radical heart to Latham's pitch. Like anti-politician Howard Dean in the U.S., he acknowledges that there is something rotten at the core of politics. Latham, who wants more grass-roots participation in the process, committed himself to the great national purpose of "reinventing and revitalizing our democracy." That he did so before the supreme policymaking body of his party was incongruous, given that Labor's power bloc is far from ready to relinquish its traditional role. He identified too much campaign spinning and stage management as a contributor to public cynicism, but did not include...
...Real Taco’s decor was almost like a Chuck E. Cheese’s,” Brush said of the contemporary decoration of the previous restaurant, which featured angled slashes of color, polished metal accents and a floor of photographed grass...
...southeastern edge of Africa. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira grew up in the capital of Mozambique, a city now called Maputo but then known as Lourenco Marques. The daughter of a Portuguese doctor, she was part of a pampered colonial class, playing tennis on the grass lawns of private clubs and spending her days sipping tea and coffee with her friends. One of the country's best-known painters, Malangatana Valente, recalls serving "Terezinha" when he worked as a waiter in a coffee shop. "She was always smiling and talking to everyone nicely," says Malangatana. "She was always a happy...
...shallow irrigation trench winds away from the women splashing in the spray of a newly dug well, cuts through a patch of tall grass and curves past the spot where John Makur Agok tends to his peace dividends: a fragile array of seedlings swaddled in black plastic, a future of lemons, oranges, mangoes, papayas and dates. "What shows that I've resettled," says the rangy 43-year-old farmer, "is that I'm planting all these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life...