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...Sierra Leone. It was a new topic to me, and I wanted to find out more. So I sat down after reading the article and wrote a really short story, more like just a sketch of a really brutal and violent scene. I [thought], how can this little kid be killing people? It doesn't really make any sense to me, but I wanted to see if I could capture that. I put it aside for the next four or five years, until my junior year of college. The Harvard African Students' Association invited China Keitetsa, who is a former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl Catches Up With Uzodinma Iweala | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...answer. A lot of the evidence and reports say that they're scarred permanently. I don't think you can go through something like this and just come out ready to work and ready to operate. One of the problems that the communities face is that sometimes the kids who are forced to fight are forced to commit atrocities against their own community members, to disconnect them from their communities, and make it impossible for them to go back. So they have nothing to do but fight, because they have nowhere to go. So then the war is ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl Catches Up With Uzodinma Iweala | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...Rather than go after and attack intelligent design,” Hauser says, “what you want is an education system that takes every kid growing up and teaches them the beauty of discovery in science generally, and more particularly, evolutionary biology...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: INTELLECTUAL CURRENTS: Biologists Here Join PR Offensive To Counter Critics | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...original comic panel it draws on is not considered art," Spiegelman says. Slowly, that attitude evolved as people learned to appreciate comics in all their uniqueness. "Comics require that the viewer read pictures, not look at them," says Chris Ware, author-artist of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and one of the medium's reigning grand masters. "This is a peculiar means of apprehension that really has no precedent in Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peanuts in the Gallery | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...corrupting Harvard’s image of “social superiority” just because I own fewer material things than other people? As a “non-college, blue-collar kid,” I think I am quite capable of “us[ing] Harvard’s resources as well as other people would,” despite Fitzsimmons’ fears that I cannot...

Author: By Jessica A. Estep | Title: Not All Students On Financial Aid Have Trouble Fitting In | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

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