Word: keenans
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...Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg (John Murray; 274 pages), British anthropologist Jeremy Keenan returns to that land of lusty mountains, his first visit to Algeria in three decades. In the 1960s, he lived in the camps of the blue-veiled tribesmen, immersed in their language and culture. He studied the people intensely?"as academic subjects," he now says, "not as human beings"?before leaving to tell the world. His academic ambitions and the region's politics prevented his return. It wasn't until 1999 that this man, who still considers himself a Tuareg expert, realized that he couldn...
...that case files are still hard copy-bound. Without modern databases, tracking the fate of children remains a maddening paper chase. "These systems should be a national scandal," says Marcia Robinson Lowry, executive director of Children's Rights Inc. "In virtually every state, there is no accountability." Says Don Keenan, an Atlanta lawyer who has sued Georgia posthumously on behalf of children who died in foster care: "This is a meltdown. This is critical...
...site sort of revealed itself. It's an area that no one had really thought much of," said Edward L. Keenan '84-'85, the director of Dumbarton Oaks...
...Once we stood on the site, there was no question that this was a much better place," Keenan said...
...pretty optimistic," Keenan said, noting that former project opponents are now supporters. He said he was recently hailed in the street by one of the erstwhile protestors who wanted to shake his hand...