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Last December, Harvard purchased the 468,000-acre parcel of the Kaingaroa forest in the center of the North Island from Tenon Ltd., a New Zealand-based corporation that focuses on wood processing, marketing and distribution of timber...
...While the company will no longer have its own forests, it will continue to enjoy the advantage of proximity to one of the world’s most sustainable sources of good quality timber—the forest plantations of the Central North Island of New Zealand,” according to the Jan. 21 notice to Tenon shareholders...
...Kaingaroa forest, situated in the middle of the North Island, lies along the ring of fire, a belt of volcanoes...
...island that has suffered decades of bloodshed and dictatorship--not to mention the possession of souls--seems to offer a formidable prospect for a novelist: What fiction can possibly stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained...
...nine quiet, carefully composed stories stitched together here give us the lives of nurses, janitors, hairdressers and professional funeral singers trying to balance their hopes between Haiti and its second act, America. Many have fled their island to escape bad memories--and look up in New York City to see their parents' killers in the next row at church, or in the barbershop. Though they could be haunted immigrants from many a troubled place, they have a dark broodingness that suggests that life is a ghost story, made up of dead brothers, lost fathers. Even when the latest tyrant, "Baby...