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...intimate style of Shootback's young photographers has endured as they've grown older. During months of Kenya's post-election violence this year, their photographs conveyed an immediacy frequently lost in the news coverage. One of Mwelu's photographs shows flames leaping from the shacks during the fighting, while a pregnant woman races by in blue sandals. And James Njuguna - another of Shootback's original trainees - photographed a Mathare resident challenging a phalanx of riot police, with his camera facing the truncheons dead-on. As powerful as the images are, Shootback's most lasting impact has perhaps been...
...Another sign that high school musicals are growing up: they've acquired that inevitable trapping of sophistication, their own awards. The Cappies were created in 1999, after the Columbine massacre, to encourage and recognize achievement in high school theater. Now they've grown to 17 regions around the country and three cities in Canada. Schools that choose to participate submit one or two productions apiece (plays as well as musicals), which are reviewed by teams of student critics - who then vote electronically for their favorites. This year's nominations in 37 categories were just announced, and the awards will...
...late 1969, when the world was a much bigger, less connected place and his rival coaches were enjoying their summer holidays, Gibson took the extraordinary step of attending a National Football League conference in Hawaii. He'd felt an affinity with the U.S., having grown up believing that his father's uncle, Hugh Cooper Gibson, was Secretary of State to President Woodrow Wilson. (Much later, he learned that his great-uncle had been merely a senior official in the State Department at that time...
...grown up since then, embraced complexity: it doesn't matter that nearly two-thirds of Americans say the Iraq war wasn't worth fighting; three-quarters say the government is not doing enough to help returning vets. They protect us when we hand them a rifle and say, "Go fight the enemy." We betray them when we hand them a pencil and say, "Now go fight the bureaucracy...
...This week, in response to the Millan killing, Calderon sent 2,700 federal police and soldiers into Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, for new operations against the cartel there. (Over the weekend, the grown son of the Sinaloa Cartel's chief, Juan "Chapo" Guzman, was gunned down by narco rivals in a Culiacan mall.) Perhaps in response, 40 men dressed in black, riding in 10 pickup trucks and armed with automatic rifles, attacked the state police station in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, reportedly leaving a civilian dead and a police officer seriously wounded. Mexico's violence may defy...