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...seven kids, Wiebe describes the labor of clearing trees in the ?boreal forest that wraps itself like an immense muffler around the shoulders of North America.? While Wiebe?s recollections tend to ramble and roam, he returns faithfully to the same characters: hard-working Mam and Pah, sickly sis Helen, older and distant brother Dan. Through memories, family sayings, and photographs, he recreates daily life: chores, trips to church, the three-mile trek to the schoolhouse, marriages and deaths, and more chores. It?s not easy living in what he calls ?a pioneer community of three hundred people isolated...
...author Helen Newton, an Australian counselor, spent weeks in 2004 traveling across the Solomons and documenting instances of abuse for the first time. Medical, prison and ngo officials were interviewed; sensitive issues were brought into the open in focus groups and in meetings with women, youths and villagers. Among the allegations: n Nine boys, aged six to 14, told how they had survived on the streets for the previous three years by charging the equivalent of $A1 a time to have sex with the crews of Japanese-owned fishing boats. "It is very painful, but I need money for food...
...works, including two world premieres, “Etesian” and “Up and Down,” one Boston premiere, “Lambarena,” and the return of last season’ favorite, “Plan to B.” Helen Pickett’s “Etesian” introduces the evening of dance. Though perhaps the most innovative of the four, with its random interludes of silence and truly modern movements, it is also the most technically lacking performance, often danced without basic unison. The muted mood often...
...election campaign, Don Brash, leader of National, the main opposition party, argued that the exodus was caused by his country's miserable growth in incomes (which are one-third below Australia's, on average, after tax) despite a good economic performance under successive governments led by Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark. National, which lost narrowly, still believes that lowering taxes across...
...professors for six hours a week. This disconnect is not the fault of conservatism, or anti-semitism; it has to do with a lack of communication. Most students have not perused the collection of essays on general education penned by professors Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, Helen Vendler, Stanley H. Hoffman, Richard F. Thomas, and others, offering insight into the thought process that supposedly guides the HCCR (and why should they have? They’re hidden away on the Facutly of Arts and Sciences website). It’s too bad the ideas in these essays...