Word: kibbutzers
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Nkosi's legacy, jokes Gail Johnson, "is exhaustion." She runs Nkosi's Haven, which gives HIV-positive mothers, their children and AIDS orphans a place to live. She has plans for a series of kibbutz-style farms to house HIV-positive women and children. Convinced that Nkosi lived longer than other HIV-positive children because he lived in a decent house and ate decent food, Gail is determined to help others achieve "normality, that's all. Acceptance." Nkosi, the unlikely messenger, showed others that normality is possible...
...born solitary," he writes, "but, separated from my family, I became that as a consequence of my successive absences." Rather than rebelling against his parents, Jean-Christophe left them. He traveled first to New York, then at the age of 23 to Israel, where he lived on a kibbutz for six months. Later he worked as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse in Africa. The relative anonymity and bohemian lifestyle appealed to the young Mitterrand. But after his father was elected President in 1981, Jean-Christophe?s journalistic career came to an end, he says, since AFP presumably wanted...
Each week his public-radio show This American Life chooses a subject and invites writers to expatiate personal stories on that theme. Glass once did three hours on chickens. The piece de resistance was a memoir of an Israeli chicken kibbutz. The experience not only revealed the storyteller's true sexual orientation, but showed that even immersion in the hell of the mass poultered won't turn one off the bird. "Oh no," he said. "You'll still eat chicken, and you'll chew real slow...
...says, "find his own war." He made it as far as Istanbul in 1981, when the military tensions in the Gulf got in the way of his eastward progress. On a tip from a fellow backpacker, he headed to Israel to find work at a kibbutz. He stayed for most of the next five years, laboring in the fields, managing irrigation systems and on one occasion coming close to live fire near the Lebanon border...
...lines to divine parcels of admissions wisdom. The paper advises that "time away almost never makes one a less desirable candidate." Perhaps paradoxically, it then lists a panoply of hectic-sounding pursuits to which current Harvard students devoted this down year - to be precise, 22 activities (including steel drumming, kibbutz life and mineralogical research) and travel to 26 countries (from Belize to Zimbabwe...