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...Taring Padi's prime mission is to campaign through art for wage hikes for workers, land rights for indigenous peoples and fairer deals for farmers. Since its establishment after the revolution that swept President Suharto from power in 1998, Taring Padi (the name means "Fangs of the Rice Plant") has produced thousands of banners and posters, mostly by hand. Until the group cobbled together enough money to buy a printing press recently, all works were etched into wood and covered with ink, then manually stamped onto cloth or paper...
...dead hand on artistic and cultural freedom into giant, busy works built of scrap iron and wooden carvings such as the precarious Pisa Tower - a collection of Jewish figures struggling frantically to keep their balance - or Noah's Ark, a warped bestiary sailing forever in search of dry land...
Christine M. Evans, new to Harvard’s Creative Writing department, is known for dishing on everything from organ transplantation, to the move from “the land Down Under,” to the secrets to writing a really great play. This year, Evans is teaching playwriting and screenwriting to beginners and advanced students. FM, for its part, decided to get some tips from this script aficionado for its work in progress, “Waiting for Gilpin...
...throughout the game. Although Harvard had no answer for Cornell’s Ryan Wittman—who led all scorers with 20 points—most of his baskets came on fast breaks or drives into the post. The Big Red went 2-of-13 from three-point land, hardly up to the caliber of the No. 1 team in the conference. However, after only having one layup in the first, Cornell turned up the interior intensity, punishing the Crimson with six layups and three jumpers in the paint. As the wear-and-tear of a tumultuous season continues...
...know, to self-deceiving Zionists, all of that was a lie,” Matory said. “People produce quotations that this land [Israel] was unoccupied before they got there...some people learn this in Saturday school, and it’s a function of self-deception...