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...airport. (It's illegal now to make rude gestures as it goes by; apparently too many people were doing so and it got on the presidential nerves.) Mostly, though, he's cloistered behind the high walls of his Harare compound. From there, Mugabe - once a hero, a man of the people - fights. The media may make it seem as if the battle today were racial, as if the President were lashing out primarily at the rich, land-owning whites left over from the bad old days. It's not. While the atmosphere in Zimbabwe is akin to what you might...
...Heirs of Orpheus, the program explores the connections between ancient Greek myths and drama and the emotionally charged music of the 17th century. Works featured include songs by Henry Purcell, the Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo, and Nicholas Lanier’s dramatic lament of Hero, “Nor com’st thou yet.” Friday, Feb. 21, 2003, at 8 p.m. Admission $20. Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 1 Follen...
...chronicle his years at Oxford, his early literary efforts and his assorted marriages and affairs. Sophisticated and self-deprecating, flip-flopping between passionate love and fashionable ennui, Mountstuart makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges...
...think about livestock as a business. In August, the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, with funding from the U.S. Government, debuted Herder From the Future, a radio series in which the lead character is transported from 2060 back to 2001. To return and reunite with his betrothed, our herder hero must "work with the people he meets in 2001 to help them change the future." This means sharing lessons on "rural economic growth and improved competitiveness for Mongolia's animal-husbandry sector...
...past, albeit not by diplomats. During the last Gulf War, two Iraqis tried to blow up the Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center?a U.S. government facility?in Manila. One was killed in the bungled attempt, but the survivor eluded capture and returned to Baghdad, where he received a hero's welcome...