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...comes a film about one of the most ignored empires of all time, that of the Ottoman Turks. At its height, this empire ruled the entire Balkan peninsula, Syria, Egypt, Hungary, even the Levant. But the rise of European empires in the 19th century hastened the decay of the Ottomans, who were ruffled by strong independence movements in Greece and European competition for Fgypt and Palestine...
...said to be a land of opportunity for black managers -- who, during the day, mix easily with whites. It also has a huge black underclass reflected in a poverty rate that is the second highest of any American core city. When I lived in Atlanta, at the height of the struggle, the interests of poor black people and well-off black people seemed identical. To some extent, their interests still coincide. But a poor black person living in a crumbling slum may have good reason to feel that triumphs of well-off black people have nothing to do with...
...clear hoses and wooden parts to demonstrate the mechanism of a well that Eaton says was fashioned in Africa. "This is how they use gravity to get water in certain parts of Africa," she says. "They move the wheel against gravity and pump the water up to a certain height, and then it falls. See? The children wouldn't be able to see that if the hoses were opaque or green or something. The clear ones demonstrate a natural fact...
Hispanic elements can also bring contemporary relevance to distant, avant- garde work. For the La Jolla Playhouse's stunning production of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a satire of dictatorship written at the height of the Nazi era, the action was shifted to a mythical region populated by figures reminiscent of Imelda Marcos, Anastasio Somoza and Fidel Castro. Harvard's American Repertory Theater relocated Jean Genet's The Balcony, a transvestite dream of sexual corruption in high places, to an unspecified Latin city gripped by revolution. Says JoAnne Akalaitis, who staged The Balcony: the Latin flavor imports...
...many ways, Baker's tenure at the White House was a strange interlude. He succeeded the tyrannical Donald Regan at the height of the Iran-contra scandal. With his easygoing manner and lack of administrative experience, Baker at first seemed an odd choice for the job. But his steady, conciliatory style proved to be perfectly suited to restoring stability in a besieged Administration...