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...abandoned fishing village that was once the island's only settlement. From the highest colonial circles to a working-class estate to an island home that encapsulates the new Hong Kong as it hovers between the past and future: Moss's trajectory mirrors much of the territory's own journey, these past 40 years. And his delighted absorption into the people of Hong Kong-after decades spent inculcating their loyalty to a colonial regime-is, surely, among the happiest of postcolonial endings...
...other e-mail exchanges with the page, Foley discusses another boy who he remarks is "in really great shape - i am just finished riding my bike on a 25 mile journey now heading to the gym - what school like for you this year?" As a result, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning congressional watchdog group, has asked the House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct to investigate, saying the legislators have "an obligation to protect the teenagers who come to Congress to learn about the legislative process." The committee, it said, "must investigate any allegation...
...fund the production of a media series that will increase the knowledge and recognition of South Asian arts. Hopefully, this greater awareness began Sunday night with Pandit Jasraj’s dynamic performance. And at the very least, those in attendance were privy to a musical and emotional journey chaperoned by one of the finest Hindustani artists; everybody wins...
...Huyghe is far from alone. His work is mainly the result of an intense collaborative process with artists, architects, designers and musicians. His most ambitious collaboration, A Journey That Wasn't, combines documentary-style film footage of his 2005 voyage to Antarctica, an operatic translation of the trip set in New York City's Central Park, a sculpture of an island discovered on the venture, a musical score based on that island's topography - and an animatronic penguin. All this is Huyghe's attempt to produce a dark, cold, strange "equivalent" of his Antarctic "elsewhere." The result is very different...
...Recently a courageous group of Arab and Muslim intellectuals wrote me a letter. In it, they said this: "The shore of reform is the only one on which any lights appear, even though the journey demands courage and patience and perseverance." The United Nations was created to make that journey possible. Together we must support the dreams of good and decent people who are working to transform a troubled region - and by doing so, we will advance the high ideals on which this institution was founded...