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Missing from that list are works dealing with the developed West. Kapuscinski's sympathies lay with the wretched of the earth - the patient, plodding masses of countries suffused with sunshine and suffering. He began his career at a time when former colonies in Asia and Africa were gaining their independence: a big story for a communist-bloc press agency. Besides, Poland had itself been kicked around by imperial powers, so Kapuscinski knew what it was like - as he wrote in The Shadow of the Sun - "to have nothing, to wander into the unknown and wait for history to utter...
...attackers arrived in the middle of the night as she lay sleeping next to her 20-month-old son. The gunmen who fatally shot Afghan journalist and radio-station owner Zakia Zaki seven times--sparing her son and other children--acted just days after a female newsreader at a TV station was shot and killed for reasons that remain unclear. One of the few female reporters to criticize the Taliban, Zaki ran the U.S.-funded Radio Peace, launched in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. In response to Zaki's murder, officials condemned the "terror," and police began...
...opportunity lay, once again, in local tradition - specifically in reviving the intricate Siwan embroidery on shawls, dresses and wedding dresses, an art which had been slowly deteriorating. Laila Neamatallah first approached local grandmothers, urging them to pass their embroidery skills on to their daughters and granddaughters, proposing that the women work as embroiderers at home so as not to offend the local sentiment...
...installation address on Oct. 12 in Tercentenary Theatre, Faust is expected to lay out more concrete plans. But former university presidents warn that Faust should articulate her initial vision in broad strokes...
...eventual decampment of “Brother West,” as he styles himself, for Princeton was the fruit of Summers’ presidential advice that West lay off the spoken-word albums and Al Sharpton presidential bids, and return to the scholarly toils of his handsomely paid vocation. A not altogether unreasonable demand, it had seemed to me as a twelfth grader, when I first heard of it—though not to West, who fumed that Summers was the “Ariel Sharon of higher education...