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...essays in her new collection display a wide interest in literature, film, dance, photography, criticism and sometimes politics (though her 1999 essay on Kosovo is noticeably absent). The literary essays tend to deal with established but mildly obscure European litterateurs (Danilo Kis, Witold Gombrowicz, W.G. Sebald, Andrzej Zagajewski). The rest of the pieces stick to art films, opera and dance. Her inimitably terse prose is recognizable from her previous criticism, particularly her tendency to issue elliptical, almost aphoristic judgments at an essay’s end. In addition, a few creative pieces—one an accompaniment for a Jasper...
...especially among teenage soldiers, was also common. "These are high-risk people," says Moses. "But they just don't know it." Sierra Leone's army says it has been too busy fighting to worry about the disease. "This is a war situation," says the army's medical director Colonel Kis Kamara. "Everything's mixed up. If we talk about this now it will be exaggerated. By September we will be very much organized." For their part, the rebels show even greater ignorance of the threat they face. RUF spokesman Gibril Massaquoi says a foreign aid agency conducted limited testing...
Burns said that Jackson and Duka- kis are campaigning in the same places and forthe same voters...
...have sailed 34 races each since October, have emerged to compete in the semifinals, which begin Dec. 28. The leader, New Zealand, has amassed 198 points out of a possible 199; it will sail a best-ofseven series against fourth-place French Kiss (129 points), named after its sponsor, Kis, a French manufacturer of photographic equipment. Kiss has been a surprise, surviving with a brash young crew and steady sailing. Second-place Stars & Stripes (154 points), skippered by Dennis Conner, who lost the Cup in '83 and is determined to get it back, will battle USA (139 points), a radical...
...wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics. One of the pair, the New Zealand II, performed remarkably, coming almost directly from the boat shed to finish second in the series. An entry sponsored by the French photo processing company Kis also broke new ground of a sort, winning special permission from rule-makers to hoist a spinnaker emblazoned with its lead entry's racy name: French Kiss. She came in fifth...